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ISTHMIAN  CANAL 
COMMISSION 


JANUARY  1,  1912,  to  MARCH  31,  1914 

INCLUSIVE 


Gift  of  the  Panama  Canal  Muse  m 


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OF   THE 


ISTHMIAN  CANAL 
COMMISSION 


JANUARY  1,  1912,  to  MARCH  31,  1914 

INCLUSIVE 


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1911 


MINUTES  OF  MEETINGS  OF  THE  ISTHMIAN  CANAL 

COMMISSION. 


ONE  HUNDRED  AND  SIXTY-SECOND  MEETING. 

Culebra,  Canal  Zone,  April  26,  1912. 

The  Commission  met  at  the  call  of  the  Chairman  at  8  o'clock  a.  m. 

Present:  Commissioners  Goethals  (Chairman),  Hodges,  Gaillard, 
Sibert,  Rousseau,  Gorgas,  Thatcher,  and  Secretary  Bishop. 

The  minutes  of  the  one  hundred  and  sixty-first  meeting  were  read 
and  approved. 

The  Chairman  read  the  following  Executive  orders,  which  were 
ordered  to  be  spread  upon  the  minutes: 

Executive  Order. 

against  the  promotion  of  fights  between  bulls,  dogs,  or  cocks. 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  vested  in  me,  I  hereby  establish  the  following  order  for 
the  Canal  Zone: 

Section  1.  Any  person  who  sets  on  foot,  instigates,  promotes  or  carries  on  any  fights 
between  cocks  or  other  birds,  or  any  dog  fight,  or  bull  fight,  or  fight  between  other  ani- 
mals; or  who  does  any  act  as  assistant,  umpire  or  principal  in  furtherance  of  any  fight 
between  any  such  animals,  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  not  to  exceed  FIFTY  DOL- 
LARS, or  by  imprisonment  not  to  exceed  THIRTY  DAYS,  or  by  both  such  fine  and 
imprisonment,  in  the  discretion  of  the  court. 

Section  2.  This  order  shall  take  effect  thirty  days  from  this  date. 

Wm  H  Taft 
The  White  House, 

August  4,  1911. 

[No.  1392.] 


Executive  Order, 
establishing  the  postal  savings  system  in  the  canal  zone. 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  vested  in  me,  I  hereby  establish  the  following  Order  for 
the  Canal  Zone: 

Section  1.  There  is  hereby  established  in  the  post-offices  of  the  Canal  Zone  a  postal 
savings  system,  to  be  operated  without  the  payment  of  interest  on  the  deposits  under 
such  rules  and  regulations  as  may  be  now  or  hereafter  adopted. 

Section  2.  There  is  hereby  created  a  Board  of  Trustees  for  the  control,  supervision, 
and  administration  of  the  postal  savings  depository  offices  designated  and  established 
under  the  provisions  of  this  Order,  and  of  the  funds  received  as  deposits  at  such  postal 
savings  depository  offices  by  virtue  thereof.  Said  board  shall  consist  of  the  Collector 
of  Revenues  of  the  Canal  Zone,  the  Auditor  of  the  Canal  Zone  Government,  and  the 

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Treasurer  of  the  Canal  Zone,  severally,  acting  exofficio,  and  shall  have  power  to  make  all 
necessary  and  proper  regulations  for  the  receipt,  transmittal,  custody,  deposit,  invest- 
ment, and  repayment  of  the  funds  deposited  at  postal  savings  depository  offices;  the 
regulations  above  mentioned  to  be  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  Chairman  of  the 
Isthmian  Canal  Commission. 

Section  3.  Said  Board  of  Trustees  is  hereby  authorized  and  empowered  to  designate 
such  post-offices  as  it  may  select  to  be  postal  savings  depository  offices,  and  each  and 
every  post-office  so  designated  by  order  of  said  Board  is  hereby  declared  to  be  a  postal 
savings  depository  office  within  the  meaning  of  this  Order  and  to  be  authorized  and  re- 
quired to  receive  deposits  of  funds  from  the  public  and  to  account  for  and  dispose  of  the 
same,  according  to  the  provisions  of  this  Order  and  the  regulations  made  in  pursuance 
thereof.  Each  postal  savings  depository  office  shall  be  kept  open  for  the  transaction  of 
business  during  such  hours  as  the  Collector  of  Revenues  shall  direct. 

Section  4.  That  accounts  may  be  opened  and  deposits  made  in  any  postal  savings 
depository  established  under  this  Order  by  any  person  of  the  age  of  ten  years  or  over, 
in  his  or  her  own  name,  and  by  a  married  woman  in  her  own  name  and  free  from  any 
control  or  interference  by  her  husband ;  but  no  person  shall  at  the  same  time  have  more 
than  one  postal  savings  account  in  his  or  her  own  right. 

Section  5.  At  least  one  dollar,  or  a  larger  amount  in  multiples  thereof,  must  be  de- 
posited before  an  account  is  opened  with  a  person  depositing  the  same;  and  one  dollar, 
or  multiples  thereof,  may  be  deposited  after  such  account  has  been  opened.  Postal 
savings  deposits  will  be  evidenced  by  postal  savings  certificates  issued  in  fixed  denomi- 
nations of  $1,  $2,  $5,  $10,  $20,  $50,  $100,  each  bearing  the  name  of  the  depositor,  the 
number  of  his  account,  the  date  of  issue,  and  the  name  of  the  depository  office. 

Section  6.  Any  depositor  may  withdraw  the  whole  or  any  part  of  the  funds  deposited 
to  his  or  her  credit  upon  demand,  and  under  such  regulations  as  the  Board  of  Trustees 
may  prescribe. 

Section  7.  Postal  savings  funds  received  under  the  provisions  of  this  Order  shall  be 
deposited  with  the  Treasurer  of  the  Canal  Zone  under  such  regulations  as  the  Board  of 
Trustees  may  prescribe. 

Section  8.  Postal  savings  depository  funds  shall  be  kept  separate  from  other  funds 
by  postmasters  and  other  officers  and  employees  of  the  postal  service,  who  shall  be  held 
to  the  same  accountability  under  their  bonds  for  such  funds  as  for  public  moneys;  and 
no  person  connected  with  the  Post-Office  Department  shall  disclose  to  any  person  other 
than  the  depositor  the  amount  of  any  deposits,  unless  directed  so  to  do  by  the  Collector 
of  Revenues. 

Section  9.  That  the  final  judgment,  order,  or  decree  of  any  court  of  competent  juris- 
diction adjudicating  any  right  or  interest  in  the  credit  of  any  sum  deposited  by  any  per- 
son with  the  postal  savings  depository,  if  the  same  shall  not  have  been  appealed  from 
and  the  time  for  appeal  have  expired,  upon  submission  to  the  Collector  of  Revenues  of 
a  copy  of  the  same,  duly  authenticated  in  the  manner  provided  by  the  laws  of  the  United 
States  for  the  authentication  of  the  records  and  judicial  proceedings  of  the  courts  of  any 
state  or  territory,  or  of  any  possession  subject  to  the  jurisdiction  of  the  United  States, 
when  the  same  are  proved  or  admitted  within  any  other  court  within  the  United  States, 
shall  be  accepted  by  the  Board  of  Trustees  as  conclusive  of  the  title,  right,  interest,  or 
possession  so  adjudicated ;  and  any  payment  of  said  sum  in  accordance  with  such  order, 
judgment,  or  decree  shall  operate  as  a  full  and  complete  discharge  of  the  United  States 
and  the  Canal  Zone  Government  from  the  claim  or  demand  of  any  person  or  persons  to 
the  same. 

Section  10.  This  Order  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  sixty  days  from  and  after 
this  date. 

Wm  H  Taft 

The  White  House, 

September  8,  1911. 

[No.  1409.] 


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Executive  Order. 

to  prohibit  the  placing  op  signs  on  lands  and  property  of  the  united  states 
and  the  panama  railroad  company. 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  vested  in  me,  I  hereby  establish  the  following  Executive 
Order  for  the  Canal  Zone. 

Section  1.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  construct  or  place  any  sign,  bill, 
poster  or  other  advertising  device  on  any  land,  building  or  other  structure  owned  or 
controlled  by  the  United  States  or  the  Panama  Railroad  Company  in  the  Canal  Zone; 
and  any  person  thus  offending  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  Five 
Dollars  nor  more  than  Twenty-Five  Dollars,  or  by  imprisonment  in  jail  not  to 
exceed  Thirty  Days,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment  in  the  discretion  of  the 
court;  and  every  day  that  such  sign,  bill,  poster  or  other  advertising  device  shall 
remain  upon  such  lands  or  structures  shall  be  deemed  a  separate  offense.  Provided, 
however,  that  this  Order  shall  not  be  construed  to  prevent  persons  from  advertising, 
by  means  of  any  such  advertising  devices  the  business  that  they  may  be  conducting 
according  to  law  in  any  building  or  other  structure  upon  which  such  advertising 
device  is  constructed  or  placed. 

Section  2.  This  Order  shall  take  effect  Sixty  Days  from  and  after  this  date. 

Wm  H  Taft 
The  White  House, 

Septembers,  1911. 

[No.  1410.] 


Executive  Order. 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  vested  in  me  I  hereby  establish  the  following  Order  for 
the  Canal  Zone. 

Sec  1.  Any  person  who  shall  without  lawful  authority  take  or  remove  the  packing 
or  waste  from  out  of  any  journal  box  or  boxes  of  any  locomotive  engine,  tender,  coach, 
caboose  or  truck,  used  or  operated  on  any  railroad,  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor, 
and  upon  conviction  shall  be  sentenced  to  pay  a  fine  not  exceeding  One  Hundred 
Dollars,  or  imprisonment  in  jail  not  exceeding  thirty  days,  or  both  fine  and  imprison- 
ment, in  the  discretion  of  the  court. 

Sec  2.  This  order  shall  take  effect  sixty  days  from  and  after  this  date. 

Wm  H  Taft 
The  White  House, 

September  14,  1911. 

[No.  1412.] 


Executive  Order. 

Under  authority  vested  in  me  by  law,  and  until  otherwise  provided  by  law  or 
ordered,  William  H.  Jackson  is  appointed  an  Associate  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court 
of  the  Canal  Zone  at  a  salary  of  six  thousand  dollars  per  annum,  effective  the  day  he 
enters  on  the  duties  of  the  office.  * 

Wm  H  Taft. 
The  White  House, 

September  21,  1911. 

[No.  1413.] 


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Executive  Order. 

to  amend  sections  51,  62,  and  526,  and  to  repeal  sections  63  and  529  of  the 
code  of  civil  procedure  of  the  canal  zone. 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  vested  in  me,  I  hereby  establish  the  following  Order  for 
the  Canal  Zone: 

Article  I.  Section  51  of  the  Code  of  Civil  Procedure  of  the  Canal  Zone  is  hereby 
amended  to  read  as  follows: 

Section  51.  Pleadings  in  the  District  Courts  shall  be  oral,  except  when  they  are 
required  by  law  to  be  verified  by  the  oath  of  either  of  the  parties  to  the  suit,  in  which 
case  the  pleadings  shall  be  in  writing. 

Article  II.  Section  62  of  the  above  mentioned  Code  is  hereby  amended  so  as  to 
read  as  follows:  . 

Section  62.  Every  District  Judge  shall  keep  a  well  bound  book  styled  "Docket," 
in  which  he  shall  enter  the  name  and  style  of  every  civil  suit  brought  before  him;  the 
dates  of  issuing  process  therein  and  of  the  return  thereof;  a  brief  statement  of  the  nature 
of  the  suit  and  of  any  plea  made  thereto  by  the  defendant,  and  if  no  appearance  is 
made,  the  defendant's  default  shall  be  noted;  the  names  of  the  witnesses  sworn;  the 
date  and  the  amount  of  the  judgment;  the  date  of  issuing  execution  or  other  process 
upon  the  judgment,  and  a  copy  of  the  returns  thereon;  the  appeal,  when  and  by  whom 
demanded;  and  briefly  all  the  proceedings  before  him  touching  the  suit. 

Each  District  Judge,  at  the  beginning  of  his  docket  and  before  any  entries  are  made 
therein  shall  make  and  subscribe  the  following  certificate,  substantially,  to-wit: 

"A  docket  of  proceedings  in  civil  matters  before ,  District  Judge  of 

the  Administrative  District  of ,  Canal  Zone. 

"Witness  my  signature. 


' '  District  Judge. ' ' 

Article  III.  Section  526  of  the  above  mentioned  Code  is  hereby  amended  so  as  to 
read  as  follows: 

Section  526.  Costs  shall  ordinarily  be  allowed  to  the  prevailing  party  as  a  matter  of 
course,  but  the  court  shall  have  power  for  special  reasons  to  adjudge  that  either  party 
shall  pay  the  costs  of  an  action,  or  that  the  same  be  divided  as  may  be  equitable;  and 
the  court  may,  for  sufficient  cause,  order  that  no  costs  be  taxed  against  either  party 
to  any  suit  or  special  proceedings. 

Article  IV.  Sections  63  and  529  of  the  Code  of  Civil  Procedure  are  hereby 
repealed. 

Article  V.  This  Order  shall  take  effect  90  days  from  and  after  this  date. 

Wm  H  Taft 

The  White  House, 

Sept.  26,  1911 

[No.  1414.] 


Executive  Order. 

amending  section  10  of  act  no.  9,  entitled  "  an  act  to  provide  sanitart  rules 
and  regulations  for  the  canal  zone,  isthmus  of  panama,  and  for  the  en- 
forcement thereof  ",  enacted  september  2,  1904. 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  vested  in  me,  I  hereby  establish  the  following  order  for 
the  Canal  Zone: 

Article  1.  Section  10  of  Act  No.  9,  entitled  "An  act  to  provide  sanitary  rules  and 
regulations  for  the  Canal  Zone,  Isthmus  of  Panama,  and  for  the  enforcement  thereof", 
enacted  September  2,  1904,  is  hereby  amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows: 


MINUTES   OF   ISTHMIAN    CANAL   COMMISSION.  1797 

Section  10.  Every  physician,  druggist,  school  teacher,  clergyman,  midwife,  nurse, 
head  of  a  family,  or  other  person  in  attendance  on  or  in  charge  of  any  one  sick  or 
injured,  having  knowledge  of  the  existence  in  any  district  of  the  Canal  Zone  of 
any  of  the  diseases  hereinafter  named,  shall  immediately  report  the  same  to  the  District 
Physician  or  District  Sanitary  Inspector.  The  diseases  required  to  be  so  reported  are: 
measles,  small-pox, 

rubella  (rotheln),  chicken-pox,  (varicella), 

scarlet  fever,  diphtheria,  (croup), 

typhus  fever,  tuberculosis  (of  any  organ), 

relapsing  fever,  glanders, 

typhoid  fever,  epidemic  cerebrospinal  meningitis, 

malarial  fever,  leprosy, 

yellow  fever,  infectious  diseases  of  the  eye, 

Asiatic  cholera,  puerperal  septicaemia, 

plague,  erysipelas, 

tetanus,  whooping  cough, 

anthrax,  dysentery. 

Any  person  who  fails  to  make  due  report,  as  required  by  this  order,  of  any  of  the 
above  enumerated  diseases  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  upon  con- 
viction thereof  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  not  exceeding  $25.00,  or  by  imprisonment 
in  jail  not  exceeding  thirty  days,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment  in  the  dis- 
cretion of  the  court. 

Article  2.  This  order  shall  take  effect  sixty  (60)  days  from  and  after  this  date. 

Wm  H  Taft 

The  White  House, 

Oct.  14,  1911. 

[No.  1419.] 


Executive  Order. 

to  prohibit  the  practice  of  medicine,  surgery,  dentistry,  pharmacy,  or  mid- 
wifery without  a  license. 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  vested  in  me  I  hereby  establish  the  following  order  for 
the  Canal  Zone: 

Section  I.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  practice  or  attempt  to  practice 
medicine,  surgery,  dentistry,  pharmacy  or  midwifery  within  the  Canal  Zone  without 
first  having  obtained  a  license  therefor  from  the  Board  of  Health  of  the  Canal  Zone. 
Any  person  thus  offending  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  not  exceeding  Twenty  Five 
Dollars  ($25.00),  or  by  imprisonment  in  jail  not  exceeding  thirty  (30)  days,  or  by  both 
such  fine  and  imprisonment  in  the  discretion  of  the  court:  Provided,  That  this  order 
shall  not  apply  to  commissioned  surgeons  of  the  United  States  Army  and  Navy,  or 
Marine  Hospital  Service,  nor  to  Physicians,  surgeons,  dentists  or  pharmacists  and 
their  assistants  and  nurses  employed  by  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission,  nor  to 
nurses  acting  under  the  orders  of  a  licensed  physician. 

Section  II.  Any  person  shall  be  regarded  as  practising  medicine  within  the  mean- 
ing of  this  order  who  shall  prescribe  for,  operate  on,  or  in  any  wise  attempt  to  heal, 
cure  or  alleviate,  or  who  shall  in  any  wise  treat  any  disease  or  any  physical  or  mental 
ailment  of  another :  Provided,  That  nothing  in  this  order  shall  be  construed  to  prohibit 
gratuitous  services  in  case  of  emergency,  or  to  the  administering  of  ordinary  household 
remedies. 

Section  III.  This  order  shall  take  effect  sixty  (60)  days  from  and  after  this  date. 

Wm  H  Taft 

The  White  House, 

Oct.  14,  1911. 

[No.  1420.] 


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Executive  Order. 

By  authority  of  the  President  of  the  United  States,  it  is  ordered: 

That  Act  No.  14  enacted  by  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission,  by  authority  of  the 
President  under  date  of  September  3,  1904,  entitled  "An  Act  to  Establish  a  Penal 
Code  for  the  Canal  Zone,  Isthmus  of  Panama,"  as  amended  by  the  Executive  Order 
issued  under  the  authority  of  the  President  by  the  Secretary  of  War,  December  1, 
1909,  be,  and  the  same  is  hereby,  amended  so  that  Section  456  of  said  Penal  Code 
as  amended  in  said  Executive  Order,  shall  now  read  as  follows: 

"The  license  fees  for  permits  issued  by  the  Treasurer  under  the  provisions  of  this 
Title  shall  be  as  follows:  For  every  permit  issued  to  carry  a  firearm  abroad,  five  dollars 
($5) ;  for  every  permit  authorizing  an  overseer  or  watchman  engaged  by  a  private  em- 
ployer, ten  dollars  ($10),  for  each  watchman  or  overseer  so  authorized  to  carry  a  fire- 
arm; for  each  hunting  permit,  five  dollars  ($5);  provided  that  no  charge  shall  be  made 
for  hunting  permits  issued  to  enlisted  men  of  the  land  or  naval  forces  of  the  United 
States  stationed  on  the  Isthmus  of  Panama.  The  treasurer  shall  keep  a  record  of  all 
licenses  issued  by  him,  with  the  name  and  residence  of  the  persons  to  whom  they  are 
issued,  and  the  date  and  serial  number  thereof." 

Henry  L.  Stimson, 

Secretary  of  War. 

War  Department, 

Washington,  D.  C. 

November  3,  1911. 


Executive  Order. 

Such  alumni  of  the  National  School  of  Engineering  of  Mexico  as  may  be  designated 
by  the  Mexican  Government  to  observe  certain  public  works  in  the  United  States 
and  Panama  may  be  employed  under  the  several  executive  departments  of  the  United 
States  in  connection  with  the  works  to  which  they  may  be  assigned. 

This  order  is  issued  in  accordance  with  the  principles  of  international  comity  to 
permit  the  action  desired  by  the  Mexican  Government.  As  the  matter  is  one  relating 
to  international  courtesy  rather  than  to  the  interests  of  the  executive  civil  service, 
the  Civil  Service  Commission  makes  no  recommendation,  regarding  the  wisdom  of 
the  proposed  waiver  as  a  matter  pertaining  to  the  Departments  concerned. 

Wm  H  Taft 
The  White  House. 

November  6,  1911. 

[No.  1430.] 


Executive  Order. 

to  prevent  the  unauthorized  purchase  of  supplies  and  equipment  from  per- 
sons in  the  army  or  navy. 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  vested  in  me,  I  hereby  establish  the  following  order  for 
the  Canal  Zone : 

Section  1.  Whoever  shall  knowingly  purchase  or  receive  in  pledge  for  any  obliga- 
tion or  indebtedness  from  any  soldier,  officer,  sailor,  or  other  person  called  into  or 
employed  in  the  military  or  naval  service,  any  arms,  equipment,  ammunition,  clothes, 
military  stores,  or  other  public  property,  whether  furnished  to  the  soldier,  office^ 
sailor,  or  person  under  a  clothing  allowance  or  otherwise,  such  soldier,  officer,  sailor, 
or  other  person  not  having  a  lawful  right  to  pledge  or  sell  the  same,  shall  be  fined  not 


MINUTES   OF   ISTHMIAN   CANAL   COMMISSION.  1799 

more  than  Five  Hundred  Dollars,  and  imprisoned  in  jail  not  more  than  Two  Years; 
and  the  Circuit  Court  of  the  Circuit  wherein  such  supplies  or  equipment  may  have 
been  unlawfully  purchased  or  received  in  pledge  shall  have  jurisdiction  of  the  offense. 
Section  2.  This  Order  shall  take  effect  Sixty  Days  from  and  after  its  publication 
in  the  Canal  Record. 

Wm  H  Taft 
The  White  House, 

November  15,  1911. 

[No.  1433.] 


Executive  Order. 

to  amend  sections  1  and  2,  op  act  no.  2,  op  the  canal  zone  laws,  relating  to 
notaries  public,  enacted  august  17,  1904,  and  for  other  purposes. 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  vested  in  me,  I  hereby  establish  the  following  Executive 
Order  for  the  Canal  Zone : 

Article  1.  Section  1,  of  Act  2,  entitled  "An  act  authorizing  the  appointment  of 
Notaries  Public,  defining  their  duties,  fixing  their  terms  of  office,  prescribing  their 
fees,  and  for  other  purposes,"  enacted  August  17,  1904,  is  hereby  amended  so  as  to  read 
as  follows: 

Section  1.  The  Head  of  the  Department  of  Civil  Administration  is  hereby  author- 
ized to  appoint  and  commission  such  number  of  persons  to  the  office  of  Notary  Public 
as  the  public  good  requires,  to  hold  for  three  years  from  the  date  of  their  appointment, 
with  jurisdiction  co-extensive  with  the  limits  of  the  Canal  Zone,  or  throughout  the 
Judicial  Circuit  in  which  the  person  appointed  Notary  Public  resides,  in  the  discretion 
of  the  Head  of  the  Department  of  Civil  Administration  and  to  be  stated  by  him  in  the 
certificate  of  appointment. 

Article  2.  Section  2  of  the  above  described  Act  No.  2  is  hereby  amended  so  as  to 
read  as  follows: 

Section  2.  The  appointment  of  a  Notary  Public  shall  be  in  writing,  signed  by  the 
Head  of  the  Department  of  Civil  Administration,  and  shall  be  substantially  in  the 
following  form : 

Canal  Zone, 

Isthmus  of  Panama. 

This  is  to  certify  that ,  of  the Judicial  Circuit  of  the  Canal  Zone, 

has  this  day  been  appointed  by  me  a  Notary  Public  with  jurisdiction  co-extensive 
with  the  limits  of  the  Canal  Zone  (or  with  jurisdiction  throughout  the  said  Judicial 
Circuit,  as  the  case  may  be),  for  the  term  of  three  years  from  this  date. 

Witness  my  official  signature  at — ,  Canal  Zone,  this day  of , 

A.  D.,  1911. 


Head  of  the  Department  of  Civil  Administration. 

Article  3.  Any  and  all  appointments  of  Notaries  Public  heretofore  under  made 
said  Act  No.  2  with  jurisdiction  throughout  the  Canal  Zone  are  hereby  ratified  and 
confirmed,  and  all  of  the  acts  and  doings  of  such  Notaries  done  in  the  Canal  Zone 
outside  of  their  respective  Judicial  Circuits,  if  otherwise  legal,  are  hereby  validated. 

This  order  shall  not  be  construed  to  require  the  reappointment  of  the  existing 
Notaries  Public,  but  these  shall  continue  in  office  to  the  end  of  their  respective  terms 
as  though  this  order  had  not  been  established. 

Article  4.  This  act  shall  take  effect  from  and  after  this  date. 

Wm  H  Taft 
The  White  House, 

November  18,  1911. 

[No.  1435.] 


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Executive  Order. 

To  Amend  Executive  Order  Prohibiting  the  Practise  of  Medicine,  Surgery, 
Dentistry,   Pharmacy,   or  Midwifery  Within  the  Canal  Zone  Without  a 

License. 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  vested  in  me  I  hereby  establish  the  following  order  for 
the  Canal  Zone,  amending  the  Executive  Order  promulgated  on  October  14,  1911,  to 
read  as  follows: 

"Section  I.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  practise  or  attempt  to  practise 
medicine,  surgery,  dentistry,  pharmacy,  or  midwifery  within  the  Canal  Zone  without 
first  having  obtained  a  license  therefor  from  the  Board  of  Health  of  the  Canal  Zone. 
Any  person  thus  offending  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  not  exceeding  Twenty  Five 
Dollars  ($25.00),  or  by  imprisonment  in  jail  not  exceeding  thirty  (30)  days,  or  by  both 
such  fine  and  imprisonment  in  the  discretion  of  the  court:  Provided,  That  this  order 
shall  not  apply  to  the  commissioned  surgeons  of  the  United  States  Army  and  Navy,  or 
Marine  Hospital  Service,  nor  to  Physicians,  surgeons,  dentists  or  pharmacists  and  their 
assistants  and  nurses  enployed  by  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission,  nor  to  nurses  acting 
under  the  orders  of  a  licensed  physician. 

Section  II,  Whoever,  not  having  registered  as  aforesaid,  shall  advertise  or  hold 
himself  out  to  the  public  as  a  physician  or  surgeon,  by  appending  to  his  name  the 
letters  "M.  D.,"  or  using  the  title  of  doctor,  meaning  thereby  a  doctor  of  medicine,  or 
shall  pretend  to  a  knowledge  of  medicine  or  surgery,  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  not 
exceeding  Twenty  Five  Dollars  ($25.00),  or  by  imprisonment  not  exceeding  thirty 
(30)  days,  or  by  both  in  the  discretion  of  the  court. 

Section  III.  Any  person  shall  be  regarded  as  practising  medicine  within  the  mean- 
ing of  this  order  who  shall  prescribe  for,  operate  on,  or  in  any  wise  attempt  to  heal, 
cure  or  alleviate,  or  who  shall  in  any  wise  treat  any  disease  or  any  physical  or  mental 
ailment  of  another:  Provided,  That  nothing  in  this  order  shall  be  construed  to  prohibit 
(a)  the  practise  of  the  religious  tenets  of  any  church  in  the  ministration  of  the  sick  or 
suffering  by  mental  or  spiritual  means  without  the  use  of  any  drug  or  material  remedy, 
whether  gratuitously  or  for  compensation,  provided  that  such  sanitary  laws,  orders, 
rules  and  regulations  as  now  are,  or  hereafter  may  be,  in  force  in  said  Canal  Zone  are 
complied  with;  or,  (6)  gratuitous  services  in  case  of  emergency;  or,  (c)  the  adminis- 
tering of  ordinary  household  remedies. 

Section  IV.  This  order  shall  take  effect  on  January  1,  1912." 

Wm  H  Taft 

The  White  House, 

December  26,  1911. 

[No.  1448.] 


Executive  Order. 

Mr.  Paul  Brosig  may  be  reinstated  in  the  classified  service  as  a  draftsman  at  $1800 
per  annum  for  duty  with  the  Fortification  Division  of  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission. 
Mr.  Brosig  had  seventeen  years  of  service  as  a  draftsman  in  the  Engineer  Department 
at  Large,  leaving  the  service  in  1905  as  a  result  of  illness  from  which  he  has  entirely 
recovered.  He  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  best  qualified  fortification  draftsmen  in  the 
United  States  and  is  now  serving  under  temporary  appointment  as  a  draftsman  in 
connection  with  the  plans  for  fortification  on  the  Isthmus  of  Panama,  since  July  5, 
1911.  The  officer  in  charge  of  fortification  plans  states  that  unless  the  services  of  Mr. 
Brosig  may  be  continued  it  will  seriously  retard  and  delay  the  preparation  of  the  plans 
and  the  Secretary  of  War  expresses  the  opinion  that  the  reinstatement  of  Mr.  Brosig  is 


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required  in  the  interests  of  the  service.  In  view  of  these  facts  the  Civil  Service  Com- 
mission joins  with  the  Secretary  of  War  in  recommending  the  reinstatement  of  Mr. 
Brosig. 

Wm  H  Taft 

The  White  House, 

January  9,  1912. 

[No.  1457.] 


Executive  Order. 

By  authority  vested  in  me  by  law,  I  establish  the  following  order  for  the  Canal  Zone  : 

Sec.  1.  A  census  of  the  Canal  Zone,  Isthmus  of  Panama,  shall  be  taken  by  the 
Department  of  Civil  Administration  of  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission  not  later  than 
April  30,  1912,  under  such  rules  and  regulations  in  conformity  with  this  Order  as  may 
be  prescribed  by  the  Head  of  Department  of  Civil  Administration  with  the  approval 
of  the  Chairman  of  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission. 

Sec  2.  The  census  shall  embrace  inquiries  relating  to  population,  and  shall  include 
for  each  inhabitant  the  name,  location,  sex,  color,  age,  conjugal  condition,  place  of 
birth,  citizenship,  length  of  residence  in  Canal  Zone,  occupation,  whether  or  not  an 
employe,  and  if  an  employe  of  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission,  the  Panama  Railroad 
Company,  the  United  States  Government,  or  of  any  arm  or  branch  thereof,  this  fact 
to  be  shown,  together  with  metal  check  number  if  an  employe  of  the  Isthmian  Canal 
Commission  or  the  Panama  Railroad  Company,  school  attendance,  literacy,  the  lan- 
guage spoken,,  whether  blind,  deaf  and  dumb,  insane,  or  imbecile,  and  any  other 
information  which,  under  the  rules  and  regulations  referred  to  in  Sec.  1,  may  be 
required . 

Sec  3.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  each  enumerator  to  visit  personally  each  dwelling 
house  in  his  subdivision,  and  each  family  therein,  and  each  individual  living  out  of 
a  family  in  any  place  of  abode,  and  by  inquiry  made  of  the  head  of  each  family,  or 
of  the  member  thereof  deemed  most  competent  and  trustworthy,  or  of  such  individual 
living  out  of  a  family,  to  obtain  each  and  every  item  of  information  and  all  particulars 
required  by  this  Order;  and  in  case  no  person  shall  be  found  at  the  usual  place  of 
abode  of  such  family,  or  individual  living  out  of  a  family,  competent  to  answer  the 
inquiries  made  in  compliance  with  the  requirements  of  this  Order,  then  it  shall  be 
lawful  for  the  enumerator  to  obtain  the  required  information  as  nearly  as  may  be 
practicable  from  families  or  persons  living  in  the  neighborhood  of  such  place  or  abode. 
It  shall  be  the  duty  also  of  each  enumerator  to  forward  the  original  schedules,  properly 
filled  out  and  duly  certified,  to  the  supervisor  or  other  chief  census  officer  of  his  dis- 
trict as  his  returns  under  the  provisions  of  this  Order;  and  in  the  event  of  discrepancies 
or  deficiencies  being  discovered  in  these  schedules  he  shall  use  all  diligence  in  cor- 
recting or  supplying  the  same. 

Sec  4.  The  compensation  of  enumerators  and  other  persons  engaged  in  taking  the 
census  shall  be  fixt  by  the  Head  of  Department  of  Civil  Administration,  subject  to 
the  approval  of  the  Chairman  of  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission. 

Sec  5.  Every  supervisor,  supervisor's  clerk,  enumerator,  interpreter,  special  agent, 
or  other  employe  shall  take  and  subscribe  to  an  oath  or  affirmation  to  faithfully  execute 
the  duties  imposed  by  his  employment. 

Sec  6.  Any  supervisor,  supervisor's  clerk,  enumerator,  interpreter,  special  agent, 
or  other  employe,  who,  having  taken  and  subscribed  to  the  oath  of  office  required  by 
this  Order,  shall,  without  justifiable  cause,  neglect  or  refuse  to  perform  the  duties 
enjoined  on  him  by  this  Order,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon 
conviction  thereof  shall  be  fined  not  exceeding  five  hundred  dollars;  or  if  he  shall, 
without  the  authority  of  the  officer  in  charge  of  the  census,  publish  or  communicate 
any  information  coming  into  his  possession  by  reason  of  his  employment  under  the 


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provisions  of  this  Order,  he  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  shall  upon  conviction 
thereof  be  fined  not  to  exceed  one  thousand  dollars,  or  be  imprisoned  not  to  exceed 
two  years,  or  both  so  fined  and  imprisoned,  in  the  discretion  of  the  court;  or  if  he  shall 
wilfully  and  knowingly  swear  to  or  affirm  falsely,  he  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  perjury, 
and  upon  conviction  thereof  shall  be  imprisoned  not  exceeding  five  years  and  be  fined 
not  exceeding  two  thousand  dollars;  or  if  he  shall  wilfully  and  knowingly  make  a 
false  certificate  or  a  fictitious  return,  he  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon 
conviction  of  either  of  the  last-named  offenses  he  shall  be  fined  not  exceeding  two 
thousand  dollars  and  be  imprisoned  not  exceeding  five  years;  or  if  any  person  who  is 
or  has  been  an  enumerator  shall  knowingly  or  wilfully  furnish,  or  cause  to  be  furnished, 
directly  or  indirectly,  to  the  officer  in  charge  of  the  census,  or  to  any  supervisor  of  the 
census,  any  false  statement  or  false  information  with  reference  to  any  inquiry  for  which 
he  was  authorized  and  required  to  collect  information,  he  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misde- 
meanor, and  upon  conviction  thereof  shall  be  fined  not  exceeding  two  thousand  dollars 
and  be  imprisoned  not  exceeding  five  years. 

Sec.  7.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  all  persons  over  twenty-one  years  of  age  when  re- 
quested by  the  officer  in  charge  of  the  census,  or  by  any  supervisor,  or  enumerator 
acting  under  the  instructions  of  the  said  officer  in  charge  of  the. census,  to  answer  cor- 
rectly, to  the  best  of  their  knowledge,  all  questions  on  the  census  schedules  applying 
to  themselves  and  to  the  family  to  which  they  belong  or  are  related,  and  any  person 
over  twenty-one  years  of  age  who,  under  the  conditions  hereinbefore  stated,  shall 
refuse  or  wilfully  neglect  to  answer  any  of  these  questions,  or  shall  wilfully  give  an- 
swers that  are  false,  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction  thereof 
shall  be  fined  not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars. 

And  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  owner,  proprietor,  manager,  superintendent,  or 
agent  of  a  hotel,  apartment  house,  boarding  or  lodging  house,  tenement,  or  other  build- 
ing, when  requested  by  the  officer  in  charge  of  the  census,  or  by  any  supervisor,  or 
enumerator,  acting  under  the  instructions  of  the  said  officer  in  charge  of  the  census,  to 
furnish  the  names  of  the  occupants  of  said  hotel,  apartment  house,  boarding  or  lodg- 
ing house,  tenement,  or  other  building,  and  to  give  thereto  free  ingress  and  egress  to 
any  duly  accredited  supervisor  or  enumerator,  so  as  to  permit  of  the  collection  of  sta- 
tistics for  census  purposes  including  the  proper  and  correct  enumeration  of  all  persons 
having  their  usual  place  of  abode  in  said  hotel,  apartment  house,  boarding  or  lodging 
house,  tenement,  or  other  building;  and  any  owner,  proprietor,  manager,  superintend- 
ent, or  agent  of  a  hotel,  apartment  house,  boarding  or  lodging  house,  tenement,  or 
other  building  who  shall  refuse  or  wilfully  neglect  to  give  such  information  or  assist- 
ance under  the  conditions  hereinbefore  stated  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and 
upon  conviction  thereof  shall  be  fined  not  exceeding  five  hundred  dollars. 

Sec.  8.  The  circuit  courts  of  the  respective  circuits  shall  have  jurisdiction  of  the 
offenses  herein  enumerated. 

Sec.  9.  This  Order  shall  take  effect  on  this  date. 

Wm  H  Taft 

The  White  House, 

January  12,  1912. 

[No.  1463.] 


Executive  Order. 

to  provide  an  inexpensive  method  for  the  administration  of  estates  of  de- 
ceased and  insane  persons  in  certain  cases,  and  to  repeal  act  24  of  the 
canal  zone  laws,  and  the  executive  orders  amendatory  thereto. 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  invested  in  me,  I  hereby  establish  the  following  Execu- 
tive Order  for  the  Canal  Zone. 

Section  1.  Whenever  an  employee  in  the  service  of  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commis- 
sion, or  the  Government  of  the  Canal  Zone,  or  of  the  Panama  Railroad  Company, 


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shall  die,  leaving  an  estate  in  the  said  Zone,  or  whenever  such  decedent,  being  a  citi- 
zen of  the  United  States,  leaves  an  estate  in  the  Canal  Zone  or  in  the  Republic  of  Pan. 
ama;  and  the  said  estate  consists  of  personal  property  only,  not  exceeding  in  value  the 
sum  of  $1,000.00,  and  a  regular  administration  shall  not  have  been  instituted  in  the 
courts  of  the  Canal  Zone,  the  Collector  of  Revenues  for  the  Canal  Zone  is  hereby  author- 
ized and  directed  to  take  possession  of  the  estate  of  the  said  deceased  person  and  to 
make  a  complete  inventory  thereof  and  present  the  same  to  the  Judge  of  the  Circuit 
Court  of  the  First  Judicial  Circuit  of  the  Canal  Zone,  to  be  filed  by  the  said  judge  in 
the  records  of  his  court  when  approved  by  him. 

Section  2.  The  Collector  of  Revenues,  with  the  approval  of  the  Judge  of  the  Circuit 
Court  of  the  First  Judicial  Circuit,  out  of  the  assets  of  the  estate,  may  pay  the  burial 
expenses  of  the  said  deceased  person  and  all  expenses  necessarily  incurred  in  securing 
possession  of  the  estate  and  of  administering  the  same  until  it  is  turned  over  to  the 
heirs  or  other  parties  entitled  thereto,  and  he  may  also  pay  the  expenses  of  the  trans- 
portation of  the  remains  of  the  decedent  to  the  United  States,  if  he  is  an  American 
Citizen  and  such  transportation  is  desired  by  the  surviving  relatives.  He  shall  also 
pay  the  lawful  debts  of  the  deceased,  with  the  approval  of  the  Circuit  Judge. 

Section  3.  In  case  the  deceased  shall  have  to  his  credit  with  the  Isthmian  Canal 
Commission,  the  Government  of  the  Canal  Zone,  or  the  Panama  Railroad  Company, 
any  sum  as  salary  or  other  acknowledged  claim,  the  amount  so  due  shall  be  paid  to 
the  Collector  of  Revenues  and  be  by  him  administered  as  a  part  of  said  estate  in  the 
manner  prescribed  by  this  Order;  Provided,  that  if  there  should  be  a  regular  admin- 
istration upon  the  estate  of  the  deceased  in  a  court  of  competent  jurisdiction  of  the 
Canal  Zone,  then  the  sum  due  to  the  deceased  shall  be  paid  to  the  regular  executor  or 
administrator  of  the  estate  appointed  by  said  court. 

Section  4.  After  all  of  the  expenses  connected  with  the  burial  of  the  deceased 
person  and  in  securing  possession  of  the  estate  and  in  otherwise  administering  the  same, 
together  with  the  lawful  debts  of  the  deceased,  have  been  fully  paid,  the  balance  of 
such  estate  shall  be  paid  by  the  Collector  of  Revenues  to  the  parties  entitled  to  receive 
such  estate;  but  before  making  such  payment,  the  approval  of  the  Judge  of  the  Circuit 
Court  must  be  obtained. 

Section  5.  If  the  deceased  employee  is  an  alien  and  has  no  heirs  in  the  Canal  Zone, 
the  Collector  of  Revenues  is  hereby  authorized  and  directed  to  deliver  the  residue  of 
the  decedent's  estate  to  the  diplomatic  or  consular  representative  of  the  country  of 
which  the  decedent  was  a  citizen  or  subject  accredited  to  the  Republic  of  Panama,  to 
be  delivered  by  such  representative  to  the  heirs  of  the  decedent;  if  the  deceased  is  a 
citizen  of  Panama,  the  residue  of  the  estate  may  be  delivered  to  his  heirs  in  Pan- 
ama, or  to  the  authorities  designated  for  that  purpose  by  the  Panamanian  laws  or 
decrees. 

Section  6.  After  the  estate  has  been  fully  administered  by  the  Collector  of  Revenues 
and  the  residue  thereof  has  been  turned  over  to  the  parties  entitled  to  the  same  accord- 
ing to  this  Order,  the  Collector  of  Revenues  shall  file  a  final  report  of  his  acts  and  doings 
in  the  estate  with  the  Judge  of  the  Circuit  Court,  and  accompany  said  report  with  the 
proper  vouchers  and  other  supporting  papers,  showing  the  receipts  and  disbursements 
made  by  him  in  administering  the  estate,  and  the  Circuit  Judge  shall  examine  said 
report,  and  if  he  finds  it  correct,  he  shall  approve  the  same  and  discharge  the  Collector 
of  Revenues  as  such  administrator. 

Section  7.  If  the  decedent  should  leave  a  widow,  or  minor  children,  or  dependent 
relative,  in  necessitous  circumstances  to  be  determined  by  the  Circuit  Judge,  the 
residue  of  the  estate  of  the  decedent,  after  all  of  the  funeral  expenses,  the  expenses  of 
transportation  of  the  remains  of  the  deceased  to  the  United  States,  if  the  remains  are 
transported,  and  the  other  expenses  incident  to  the  administration  of  the  estate  are 
fully  paid,  shall  be  delivered  to  said  widow,  or  minor  children,  or  dependent  relative, 
as  the  case  may  be,  for  their  maintenance  and  support;  and,  except  as  in  this  section 


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otherwise  provided,  the  claims  of  the  widow,  minor  children,  or  dependent  relative 
of  the  deceased  for  this  allowance  shall  be  superior  to  the  claims  of  the  creditors  of  the 
deceased,  Provided,  that  such  preference  in  favor  of  the  widow,  minor  children,  or 
dependent  relative  shall  not  exceed  $500.00. 

Section  8.  If  an  -employee  of  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission,  the  Government  of 
the  Canal  Zone,  or  the  Panama  Railroad  Company  should  be  adjudged  insane  by  the 
Canal  Zone  Courts  and  have  an  estate  not  exceeding  $1,000.00  in  value  and  consisting 
entirely  of  personal  property,  and  no  regular  guardianship  of  such  estate  shall  have  been 
instituted  in  the  Canal  Zone  Courts,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Collector  of  Revenues 
to  take  possession  of  the  estate  of  such  insane  person,  including  any  salary  or  other 
acknowledged  claim  due  to  such  employee  by  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission,  the 
Canal  Zone  Government,  or  the  Panama  Railroad  Company,  and  make  a  complete 
inventory  thereof  and  file  the  same  with  the  Judge  of  the  Circuit  Court  of  the  First 
Judicial  Circuit  of  the  Canal  Zone;  and  under  the  direction  and  with  the  approval  of 
the  Judge  of  the  said  Court,  the  Collector  of  Revenues  may  pay  the  lawful  indebtedness 
due  by  the  insane  person,  as  well  as  the  expenses  incurred  in  administering  said 
estate,  and  he  shall  hold  the  residue  of  the  estate  subject  to  the  orders  of  the  Circuit 
Judge. 

If  the  insane  person  has  a  wife^  minor  child  or  children,  or  dependent  relative,  in 
necessitous  circumstances,  to  be  determined  by  the  Circuit  Judge,  the  court  shall  set 
aside  a  sufficient  sum  out  of  the  said  estate  for  their  maintenance  and  support,  not  to 
exceed  the  sum  of  $500.00  in  the  aggregate,  to  be  paid  in  such  manner  and  at  such 
times  as  the  Circuit  Judge  may  prescribe,  and  which  allowance  shall  be  superior  to 
all  other  claims  against  the  estate;  and  the  order  of  the  Judge  shall  be  sufficient 
authority  for  the  Collector  of  Revenues  to  make  such  payment,  taking  proper  receipts 
therefor. 

In  case  the  insane  person  is  a  citizen  of  the  United  States  and  has  no  wife,  child  or 
children,  or  dependent  relative,  the  Collector  of  Revenues  shall  retain  possession  of  the 
residue  of  said  estate,  after  the  debts  and  other  charges  have  been  paid  as  above  men- 
tioned, and  hold  same  subject  to  the  orders  of  the  court. 

If  the  insane  person  is  a  Panamanian  and  has  no  wife,  child  or  children,  or  depend- 
ent relative,  the  residue  of  the  estate,  with  the  approval  of  the  Circuit  Judge,  may 
be  delivered  by  the  Collector  of  Revenues  to  the  authorities  designated  for  that  pur- 
pose by  the  Panamanian  laws  or  decrees. 

If  the  insane  person  is  an  alien,  othei  than  a  Panamanian,  and  has  no  wife,  child  or 
children,  or  dependent  relative,  the  Collector  of  Revenues,  with  the  approval  of 
the  Judge  of  the  Circuit  Court,  shall  pay  over  the  residue  of  the  said  estate  to  the  diplo- 
matic or  consular  representative  of  the  country  to  which  the  insane  person  belongs 
accredited  to  the  Republic  of  Panama,  to  be  disposed  of  by  him  in  accordance  with 
the  laws  of  his  country. 

Section  9.  When  the  estate  of  the  insane  person  is  finally  administered  and  the 
moneys  paid  over  to  the  peison  or  persons  entitled  to  receive  same  as  herein  provided 
for,  the  Collector  of  Revenues  shall  make  his  final  report  on  said  estate  to  the  Judge 
of  the  Circuit  Court,  and  the  Court  shall  approve  the  same,  if  found  to  be  correct,  and 
discharge  the  Collector  of  Revenues  from  such  guardianship. 

Section  10.  When  the  Collector  of  Revenues  shall  have  performed  his  duties  in 
accordance  with  the  provisions  of  this  Order  and  shall  have  delivered  the  estate  or 
paid  over  the  sums  due  from  the  funds  of  said  estate  to  the  person  or  persons  entitled 
thereto  in  accordance  with  the  orders  of  the  court,  such  settlement  of  the  estate  shall 
be  deemed  a  lawful  settlement  thereof,  and  the  Collector  of  Revenues  shall  not  be 
accountable  on  his  bond  and  shall  not  be  liable  to  any  other  person  for  the  estate  so 
administered  by  him;  Provided,  that  nothing  in  this  Order  shall  prohibit  the  lawful 
heirs  or  claimants  of  any  person  whose  estate  has  been  settled  in  accordance  with  the 
provisions  of  this  Order  from  bringing  suit  in  any  court  having  jurisdiction  of  the 


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subject-matter  and  of  the  parties  to  the  action  against  the  person  or  persons  who 
received  the  estate  by  virtue  of  the  provisions  of  this  act,  and  from  recovering  the 
same  or  the  value  thereof  from  such  person  or  persons  upon  proof  that  the  estate  has 
been  delivered  to  the  persons  not  entitled  to  receive  and  retain  same. 

Section  11.  This  Order  shall  apply  to  the  estate  of  persons  who  died  or  became 
insane  prior  to  the  passage  of  this  Order,  as  well  as  to  those  who  die  or  become  insane 
after  the  date  of  its  promulgation. 

Section  12.  If  the  Collector  of  Revenues  shall  deem  it  to  the  best  interest  of  the 
estate  of  the  deceased  or  insane  person  to  convert  any  part  or  all  of  the  property  of 
the  estate  into  cash,  he  may  dispose  of  the  same  by  public  or  private  sale,  with  the 
approval  of  the  Circuit  Judge. 

Section  13.  The  proceedings  to  be  had  before  the  Judge  of  the  Circuit  Court  as 
herein  provided  for  may  be  conducted  without  the  necessity  of  any  prior  notice  being 
given  of  the  same,  either  by  publication  or  otherwise;  and  the  judge  may  proceed  in 
such  cases  in  open  court  or  in  chambers,  and  shall  give  precedence  to  such  matters 
over  all  other  business  pending  before  him,  in  order  that  the  estates  may  be  adminis- 
tered and  closed  as  expeditiously  as  the  rights  of  all  parties  concerned  may  permit. 
No  court  costs  of  any  kind  shall  be  taxed  against  estates  administered  under  the  pro- 
visions of  this  Order. 

Section  14.  The  official  bond  of  the  Collector  of  Revenues  shall  be  security  for  the 
moneys  and  properties  received  by  him  in  the  performance  of  the  duties  prescribed 
for  him  by  this  Order. 

Section  15.  Act  24,  of  the  Canal  Zone  Laws,  entitled: 

"An  Act  providing  for  an  inexpensive  method  of  Administration  upon  the  Estates 
of  Employees  of  the  Government  of  the  Canal  Zone,  or  of  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commis- 
sion, who  are  citizens  of  the  United  States  and  who  die  in  the  Canal  Zone,  Isthmus  of 
Panama,  leaving  estates  of  small  value  upon  which  regular  administration  is  deemed 
inadvisable." 

enacted  March  1,  1905,  and  Executive  Order  dated  June  22,  1907,  effective  July  1, 
1907,  and  Executive  Order  dated  July  21,  1909,  respectively,  amendatory  of  said  Act 
24,  and  all  laws  in  conflict  herewith,  are  hereby  repealed. 

Section  16.  This  Order  shall  take  effect  30  days  from  and  after  this  date. 

Wm  H  Taft 

The  White  House, 

February  5,  191  >. 

[No.  1468.] 


Executive  Order. 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  vested  in  me,  I  hereby  establish  the  following  order  for 
the  Canal  Zone. 

Section  1.  No  automobile,  motor  cycle,  or  bicycle  shall  be  driven  or  operated 
over  the  roads  or  streets  of  the  Canal  Zone  at  a  speed  exceeding  fifteen  (15)  miles  an 
hour  on  straight  roads,  or  at  a  speed  exceeding  eight  (8)  miles  an  hour  when  approach- 
ing or  traversing  curves,  forks,  or  crossroads,  or  when  traveling  over  the  streets  of  any 
city,  town,  or  village  of  the  Canal  Zone.  The  owner  of  an  automobile,  if  within  the 
car,  shall  be  held  responsible  for  its  speed ;  in  the  absence  of  the  owner,  the  person 
actually  driving  the  automobile  shall  be  held  responsible.  The  person  operating  a 
motor  cycle  or  bicycle  shall  be  held  responsible  for  its  speed. 

Section  2.  In  the  operation  or  employment  of  automobiles,  motor  cycles,  bicycles, 
carriages,  wagons,  and  other  vehicles  over  Canal  Zone  roads  or  streets,  the  following 
rules  shall  be  observed,  viz:  All  such  vehicles,  in  meeting  and  passing  other  vehicles, 
or  in  being  overtaken  and  passed  by  other  vehicles,  shall  keep  to  the  left  of  the  road; 


1806  MINUTES    OF   ISTHMIAN    CANAL    COMMISSION. 

and  in  overtaking  and  passing  other  vehicles  they  shall  keep  to  the  right.  The  owner 
of  an  automobile  or  other  vehicle,  if  riding  therein,  shall  be  held  responsible  for  the 
driving  or  operation  thereof,  agreeably  to  the  provisions  of  this  section;  in  the  absence 
of  the  owner,  the  person  driving  or  operating  such  vehicle  shall  be  held  responsible. 
In  the  case  of  any  motor  cycle  or  bicycle,  the  person  operating  same  shall  be  held 
responsible. 

Section  3.  Any  person  violating  any  provision  of  this  order  shall  be  punished  by 
a  fine  not  exceeding  One  Hundred  Dollars  ($100.00),  United  States  currency,  or  by 
imprisonment  not  exceeding  thirty  (30)  days,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment, 
in  the  discretion  of  the  court. 

Section  4.  The  Executive  Order  of  February  27,  1908,  relative  to  the  speed  of 
automobiles  on  Canal  Zone  roads  is  hereby  repealed. 

Section  5.  This  order  shall  take  effect  thirty  days  from  this  date. 

Wm  H  Taft 

The  White  House, 

February  28,  1912. 

[No.  1489.] 


2.  The  following  resolution,  adopted  by  letter  ballot,  authorizing 
J.  W.  Sneed,  Superintendent  of  Construction,  Central  Division,  to 
enter  September  28,  1911,  upon  42  days'  leave  of  absence  with  pay, 
was  formally  confirmed: 

Resolved,  That  J.  W.  Sneed,  Superintendent  of  Construction,  Central 
Division,  be  granted  42  days'  leave  of  absence  with  pay,  effective 
September  28,  1911,  which  ordinarily  would  not  be  due  until  October 
15,  1911. 

3.  The  following  resolution,  adopted  by  letter  ballot,  authorizing 
Thomas  H.  Smallwood,  motorman,  to  enter  December  13,  1911,  upon 
42  days'  leave  of  absence  with  pay,  was  formally  confirmed: 

Resolved,  That  Thomas  H.  Smallwood,  motorman,  be  granted  42 
days'  leave  of  absence  with  pay,  effective  December  13,  1911,  which 
ordinarily  would  not  be  due  until  February  4,  1912. 

4.  The  following  resolution,  adopted  by  letter  ballot,  authorizing 
Rev.  P.  Jose  Volk,  Chaplain,  Department  of  Sanitation,  to  enter 
January  22,  1912,  upon  42  days'  leave  of  absence  with  pay,  was 
formally  confirmed: 

Resolved,  That  Rev.  P.  Jose  Volk,  Chaplain,  Department  of  Sani- 
tation, be  granted  42  days'  leave  of  absence  with  pay,  effective 
January  22,  1912,  which  ordinarily  would  not  be  due  until  March  12, 
1912. 

5.  The  following  resolution,  adopted  by  letter  ballot,  authorizing 
Francis  A.  Hobart,  draftsman,  to  enter  March  26,  1912,  upon  30 
days'  leave  of  absence  with  pay,  was  formally  confirmed: 

Resolved,  That  Francis  A.  Hobart,  draftsman,  Office  of  the  Chief 
Engineer,  be  granted  30  days'  leave  of  absence  with  pay,  effective 
March  26,  1912,  which  ordinarily  would  not  be  due  until  April  25, 
1912. 


MINUTES    OF   ISTHMIAN    CANAL    COMMISSION.  1807 

6.  Upon  motion  it  was — 

Resolved,  That  Maj.  J.  P.  Jervey,  Resident  Engineer,  Atlantic 
Division,  be  granted  42  days'  leave  of  absence  with  pay,  effective 
June  1,  1912,  which  ordinarily  would  not  be  due  until  July  6,  1912. 

7.  Upon  motion  it  was — 

Resolved,  That  Edward  Schildhauer,  Electrical  and  Mechanical 
Engineer,  be  granted  42  days'  leave  of  absence  with  pay,  effective 
May  15,  1912,  which  ordinarily  would  not  be  due  until  June  27,  1912. 

8.  The  following  resolution  adopted  by  letter  ballot,  authorizing, 
effective  October  1,  1912,  the  payment  to  employees  for  accrued 
leave  at  termination  of  actual  service,  or  their  estates  at  death,  was 
formally  confirmed : 

Resolved,  That  any  employee  of  the  Commission  whose  service 
terminates  on  or  after  October  1,  1912,  whether  by  resignation  or  by 
discharge,  at  a  time  when  he  has  leave  with  pay  due  him  under  the 
regulations  of  the  Commission,  instead  of  being  granted  such  leave 
of  absence  with  pay  shall,  at  the  time  of  termination  of  his  actual 
service  and  in  addition  to  his  regular  pay  for  such  service,  be  paid 
an  amount  equal  to  the  amount  he  would  have  been  entitled  to 
receive  had  he  been  granted  leave  under  the  regulations  of  the  Com- 
mission; and  that  there  shall  be  paid  to  the  estate  of  an  employee 
whose  service  is  terminated  by  death  at  a  time  when  leave  is  due 
him  an  amount  equal  to  the  amount  he  would  have  received  had  his 
service  terminated  by  resignation  or  discharge. 

.  9.  The  following  amendment  to  the  ordinance  "providing  for  the 
licensing  and  regulation  of  motor  vehicles  in  the  Canal  Zone, "  adopted 
by  the  Commission  by  letter  ballot,  was  formally  confirmed : 

Amendment  of  the  Ordinance  Providing  for  the  Licensing  and  Regulation 
of  Motor  Vehicles  in  the  Canal  Zone. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission,  as  follows: 

That  the  ordinance  providing  for  the  licensing  and  regulation  of  motor  vehicles  in 
the  Canal  Zone,  enacted  by  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission  at  its  158th  meeting  on 
August  25,  1910,  and  approved  by  the  Acting  Secretary  of  War  October  31,  1910,  be, 
and  the  same  is  hereby,  amended,  as  follows: 

Section  I  is  amended  so  that  the  same  shall  now  read  as  follows: 
Section  I.  That,  hereafter,  there  shall  be  collected  and  accounted  for  as  other 
similar  taxes,  the  following  license  taxes  from  the  owners  or  operators  of  motor  vehicles 
used  ir  employed  on  the  streets  or  roads  of  the  Canal  Zone,  viz:  (1)  Excepting  motor 
cycles,  (a)  for  each  motor  vehicle  operated  for  the  transportation  of  freight  for  hire, 
or  for  the  transportation  of  merchandise  or  freight  by  any  merchant  or  dealer,  ninety 
dollars  ($90)  per  annum;  (b)  for  each  motor  vehicle  operated  for  the  transportation  of 
passengers  for  hire,  fifty  dollars  ($50)  per  annum;  (c)  for  each  motor  vehicle  operated 
for  pleasure  twenty-five  dollars  ($25)  per  annum;  and  (II)  for  each  motor  cycle  ten 
dollars  ($10)  per  annum:  Provided,  however,  That  for  motor  vehicles  operated  over  the 
streets  and  roads  of  the  Canal  Zone  which  have  already  been  duly  licensed  and  authorized 
to  operate  over  the  streets  and  roads  of  the  Republic  of  Panama,  and  where  the  licensees 
are  residents  of  the  Republic  of  Panama,  there  may  be  collected,  with  the  approval 
of  the  Head  of  the  Department  of  Civil  Administration,  in  lieu  of  the  license  taxes 
above  enumerated,  license  taxes  as  follows:  (I)  Excepting  motor  cycles,  (a)  for  each 
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1808  MINUTES    OP   ISTHMIAN    CANAL    COMMISSION. 

motor  vehicle  operated  for  the  transportation  of  freight  for  hire,  or  for  the  transporta- 
tion of  merchandise  or  freight  by  any  merchant  or  dealer,  ninety  dollars  ($90)  per  an- 
num; (6)  for  each  motor  vehicle  operated  for  the  transportation  of  passengers  for  hire 
thirty  dollars  ($30)  per  annum;  (c)  for  each  motor  vehicle  operated  for  pleasure  five 
dollars  ($5)  per  annum;  and  (II)  for  each  motor  cycle  two  dollars  ($2)  per  annum;  if, 
reciprocally  on  the  various  kinds  of  motor  vehicles  in  this  proviso  enumerated,  which 
have  already  been  duly  licensed  for  operation  over  the  streets  and  roads  of  the  Canal 
Zone,  and  where  the  licensees  are  residents  of  the  Canal  Zone,  there  are  exacted  and 
collected  in  the  Republic  of  Panama  total  license  taxes  or  charges,  per  annum,  not 
exceeding  the  respective  license  taxes,  in  this  proviso  enumerated;  and  in  the  event 
that  the  reciprocal  motor  vehicle  license  taxes  of  the  classes  herein  enumerated  are 
increased  in  the  Republic  of  Panama  over  those  herein  named,  there  shall  be  collected 
in  the  Canal  Zone,  with  the  approval  of  the  Head  of  the  Department  of  Civil  Admin- 
istration, reciprocal  motor  vehicle  license  taxes  equal  to  the  total  thus  reciprocally 
charged  in  the  Republic  of  Panama:  And  provided  further,  That  where  any  motor 
vehicle  licensed  in  the  Canal  Zone  shall,  before  the  period  for  which  the  license  is 
taken  expires,  be  sold  or  transferred  by  the  licensee  to  some  other  person  who  may 
desire  to  continue  to  use  and  operate  such  vehicle  over  the  streets  and  roads  of  the 
Canal  Zone,  such  transferee,  by  application  to  the  Collector  .of  Revenues,  and  upon 
submission  of  satisfactory  evidence  of  such  purchase  or  transfer,  may  have  the  license 
transferred  to  him  by  indorsement  made  thereon  by  the  Collector  of  Revenues,  author- 
izing such  transferee  to  operate  such  motor  vehicle  under  such  license,  without  the 
payment  of  any  additional  license  charge  or  fee. 

10.  The  following  resolution  adopted  by  letter  ballot,  governing 
the  treatment  of  officers  and  men  of  the  United  States  Army,  Navy, 
and  Marine  Corps  in  Commission  hospitals,  was  formally  confirmed: 

Resolved,  That  the  additional  paragraph  to  the  regulation  goA7ern- 
ing  the  treatment  of  individuals  by  the  physicians,  and  in  the  hos- 
pitals, of  the  Health  Department  of  the  Government  of  the  Canal 
Zone,  adopted  by  the  Commission  at  its  136th  meeting,  and  changed 
at  its  145th  meeting,  be  further  changed  to  read  as  follows: 

Officers  and  enlisted  men  of  the  United  States  Army  and  of  the 
United  States  Navy  and  of  the  United  States  Marine  Corps,  stationed 
for  duty  on  the  Canal  Zone,  or  cruising  in  adjacent  waters,  shall  be 
admitted  to,  and  treated  in,  Commission  hospitals  at  the  following 
rate:  Officers,  $1  a  day;  enlisted  men,  at  the  actual  cost  of  their 
subsistence  as  determined  each  month;  and  the  members  of  their 
families  may  be  admitted  to  hospitals  and  treated  at  dispensaries  on 
the  same  basis  as  members  of  families  of  employees  of  the  Isthmian 
Canal  Commission.  Such  treatment  shall  include  professional  attend- 
ance, operations  when  necessary,  medical  supplies,  subsistence,  and 
transportation  on  the  hospital  car  from  any  point  between  Colon  and 
Panama. 

11.  Upon  the  recommendation  of  the  Chief  Sanitary  Officer  it 
was — 

Resolved,  That  paragraph  3,  under  section  K,  of  the  regulations 
governing  the  treatment  of  persons  by  physicians  and  in  the  hos- 
pitals of  the  Health  Department  of  the  Government  of  the  Canal 
Zone  be  amended  by  the  elimination  of  the  entire  paragraph,  with 
the  exception  of  subparagraph  lettered  "E." 


MINUTES   OP   ISTHMIAN   CANAL  COMMISSION.  1809 

12.  The  chairman  presented  statements  covering  changes  in  the 
status  of  employees  on  duty  in  the  United  States  for  the  periods  from 
January  1,  1911,  to  June  30,  1911,  inclusive,  and  from  July  1,  1911, 
to  December  31,  1911,  inclusive,  all  of  which  were  ratified  and  con- 
firmed. 

13.  The  chairman  presented  statements  showing  the  appoint- 
ments, promotions,  and  other  changes  in  the  personnel: 

(a)  In  the  Department  of  Construction  and  Engineering  for  the  weeks  ending 
January  7,  14,  21,  and  28;  February  4,  11,  18,  and  25;  March  4,  11,  18,  and  25;  April  1, 
8,  15,  22,  and  29;  May  6,  13,  20,  and  27;  June  3,  10,  17,  and  24;  July  1,  8,  15,  22,  and 
29;  August  5,  12,  19,  and  26;  September  2,  9,  16,  23,  and  30;  October  7,  14,  21,  and  28; 
November  4,  11,  18,  and  25;  December  2,  9,  16,  23,  and  30,  1911;  January  6,  13,  20, 
and  27;  February  3,  10,  17,  and  24;  March  2,  9,  16,  23,  and  30,  1912. 

(6)  In  the  Department  of  Civil  Administration  for  the  weeks  ending  January  7,  14, 
21,  and  28;  February  4,  11,  18,  and  25;  March  4,  11,  18,  and  25;  April  1,  8, 15,  22,  and 
29;  May  6,  13,  20,  and  27;  June  3,  10,  17,  and  24;  July  1,  8,  15,  22,  and  29;  August  5, 

12,  19,  and  26;  September  2,  9,  16,  23,  and  30;  October  7,  14,  21,  and  28;  November  4, 
11,  18,  and  25;  December  2,  9,  16,  23,  and  30,  1911;  January  6,  13,  20,  and  27;  Febru- 
ary 3,  10,  17,  and  24;  March  2,  9,  16,  23,  and  30,  1912. 

(c)  In  the  Department  of  Sanitation  for  the  weeks  ending  January  7,  14,  21,  and  28, 
February  4,  11,  18,  and  25;  March  4,  11,  18,  and  25;  April  1,  8,  15,  22,  and  29;  May  6, 

13,  20,  and  27;  June  3,  10,  17,  and  24;  July  1,  8,  15,  22,  and  29;  August  5,  12,  19,  and 
26;  September  2,  9,  16,  23,  and  30;  October  7,  14,  21,  and  28;  November  4,  11,  18; 
and  25;  December  2,  9,  16,  23,  and  30,  1911;  January  6,  13,  20,  and  27;  February  3, 

10,  17,  and  24;  March  2,  9,  16,  23,  and  30,  1912. 

(d)  In  the  Quartermaster's  Department  for  the  weeks  ending  January  7,  14,  21, 
and  28;  February  4,  11,  18,  and  25;  March  4,  11,  18,  and  25;  April  1,  8,  15,  22,  and  29; 
May  6,  13,  20,  and  27;  June  3,  10,  17,  and  24;  July  1,  8,  15,  22,  and  29;  August  5,  12, 
19,  and  26;  September  2,  9,  16,  23,  and  30;  October  7,  14,  21,  and  28;  November  4, 

11,  18,  and  25;  December  2,  9,  16,  23,  and  30,  1911;  January  6,  13,  20,  and  27;  Febru- 
ary 3,  10,  17,  and  24;  March  2,  9,  16,  23,  and  30,  1912. 

(e)  In  the  Subsistence  Department  for  the  weeks  ending  January  14,  21,  and  28; 
February  11,  18,  and  25;  March  4,  11,  18,  and  25;  April  1,  22,  and  29;  May  6,  13,  20, 
and  27;  June  3,  10,  17,  and  24;  July  1,  8,  15,  22,  and  29;  August  5,  12,  19,  and  26; 
September  2,  9,  16,  23,  and  30;  October  7,  14,  21,  and  28;  November  4,  11,  18,  and  25; 
December  2,  9,  16,  23,  and  30,  1911;  January  6,  13,  20,  and  27;  February  3,  10,  17, 
and  24;  March  9,  16,  23,  and  30,  1912. 

(/)  In  the  Department  of  Disbursements  for  the  weeks  ending-  January  7  and  28; 

February  4;  March  4  and  25;  April  1,  8,  22,  and  29;  May  6,  13,  20,  and  27;  June  17 

and  24;  July  1  and  8;  August  5  and  12;  September  2,  9,  23,  and  30;  October  7,  14, 

21,  and  28;  November  4  and  25;  December  23  and  30,  1911;  January  13  and  27; 

'February  17;  March  2,  23,  and  30,  1912. 

(g)  In  the  Department  of  Examination  of  Accounts  for  the  weeks  ending  January  7, 

14,  and  28;  February  4,  11,  18,  and  25;  March  4,  11,  18,  and  25;  April  1,  8,  15,  22,  and 
29;  May  6,  13,  20,  and  27;  June  3,  10,  17,  and  24;  July  8,  15,  22,  and  29;  August  5,  12, 
19,  and  26;  September  2,  9,  16,  23,  and  30;  October  7,  14,  and  21;  November  4,  11, 
18,  and  25;  December  2,  9,  16,  and  23,  1911;  January  6,  13,  20,  and  27;  February  3, 
10,  17,  and  24;  March  2,  9,  16,  23,  and  30,  1912. 

(h)  In  the  Department  of  Law  for  the  weeks  ending  January  7,  14,  and  28;  Febru- 
ary 25;  May  20;  September  2,  16,  and  23;  November  25,  1911;  January  13  and  27; 
March  9,  1912. 


1810  MINUTES   OF   ISTHMIAN   CANAL   COMMISSION. 

(i)  In  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission  Band  for  the  weeks  ending  January  7;  Feb- 
ruary 4;  March  4,  11,  and  25;  April  8  and  29;  May  6,  13,  and  27;  June  17;  July  29; 
September  9  and  23;  October  14,  21,  and  28;  November  18;  December  23  and  30, 
1911;  January  20;  February  3;  March  2  and  30,  1912. 

(J)  Tn  the  Panama  Railroad  Commissary  Department  for  the  weeks  ending  Janu- 
ary 7,  14,  21,  and  28;  February  4,  11,  18,  and  25;  March  4,  11,  18,  and  25;  April  1,  8, 
15,  22,  and  29;  May  6,  13,  20,  and  27;  June  3,  10,  17,  and  24;  July  1,  8,  15,  22,  and  29; 
August  5,  12,  19,  and  26;  September  2,  9,  16,  23,  and  30;  October  7,  14,  21,  and  28; 
November  4,  11,  18,  and  25;  December  2,  9,  16,  23,  and  30,  1911;  January  6,  13,  20, 
and  27;  February  3,  10,  17,  and  24;  March  2,  9,  16,  23,  and  30,  1912. 

(£)  In  the  Panama  Railroad  relocation  for  the  weeks  ending  January  7,  14,  21, 
and  28;  February  4,  11,  18,  and  25;  March  4,  11,  18,  and  25;  April  1,  8,  15,  22,  and  29, 
May  6,  13,  20,  and  27;  June  3,  10,  17,  and  24;  July  1,  8,  15,  22,  and  29;  August  5,  12; 
19,  and  26;  September  2,  9,  16,  23,  and  30;  October  7,  14,  21,  and  28;  November  4, 
11,  18,  and  25;  December  2,  9,  16,  23,  and  30,  1911;  January  6,  13,  20,  and  27;  Feb- 
ruary 3,  10,  17,  and  24;  March  2,  9,  16,  23,  and  30,  1912. 

All  of  which  were  ratified  and  approved. 
14.  Upon  motion  it  was  — 

Resolved,  That  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  sec.  4  of  the 
regulations  respecting  the  sale  of  intoxicating  liquors  in  the  Canal 
Zone,  adopted  by  the  Commission  April  27,  1907,  and  approved  by 
the  Secretary  of  War  May  17,  1907,  the  towns  and  villages  of  the 
Canal  Zone  in  which  saloons  and  drinking  places  may  be  licensed  for 
the  year  commencing  July  1,  19-12,  and  the  areas  in  such  towns  and 
villages  within  which  such  saloons  and  drinking  places  may  be 
located  be,  and  the  same  hereby  are,  fixed  as  follows: 

Culebra:  Lots  11  to  19,  inclusive,  block  1;  lots  12  to  20,  inclusive, 
block  2;  lots  1  to  9,  inclusive,  block  4;  lots  2  to  10,  inclusive,  block  5, 
West  Culebra. 

Empire:  The  area  bounded  by  Second  Avenue,  Main  Street,  Sev- 
enth Avenue,  and  Front  Street:  Provided,  however,  That  no  saloons  in 
addition  to  the  total  number  now  being  conducted  on  Front  Street 
shall  be  licensed. 

Matacliin:  On  the  main  street  of  the  town,  on  the  north  side  of  the 
Panama  Railroad,  in  line  with  the  buildings  in  which  saloons  are  now 
located. 

Gorgona:  Area  bounded  by  Second  Street,  Avenue  E,  Fifth  Street, 
and  Central  Avenue  (or  Avenue  A),  but  no  saloons  will  be  permitted 
to  face  on  Central  Avenue. 

Gatun:  All  of  blocks  7  and  8;  lots  1  to  5,  inclusive,  block  2;  lots  1  to 
5,  inclusive,  block  4;  and  lots  1  to  4,  inclusive,  block  6,  of  the  new  town 
laid  out  by  the  Panama  Railroad  Co. 

All  of  the  areas  described  are  more  particularly  indicated  on  maps, 
numbered  1  to  11,  inclusive,  prepared  in  the  Office  of  the  Chief  Engi- 
neer of  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission  and  approved  by  the  Head 
of  the  Department  of  Civil  Administration. 

The  designation  of  the  areas  hereinbefore  made,  however,  shall  not 
be  construed  as  prohibiting  the  renewal  of  the  licenses  of  dealers  now 
engaged  in  the  retail  sale  of  liquor,  under  proper  license,  in  any  of 
the  towns  mentioned  outside  of  the  areas  designated,  the  places  of 
business  of  all  such  dealers  outside  of  the  areas  described  being  shown 
on  the  maps  hereinbefore  referred  to. 


MINUTES   OF  ISTHMIAN   CANAL   COMMISSION.  1811 

Resolved  further,  That  the  number  of  saloons  to  be  located  in  each 
town  within  the  area  designated  shall  not  be  restricted,  except  as 
indicated  on  Front  Street,  Empire,  but  that  each  reliable  and  respon- 
sible applicant  shall  be  granted  a  license  for  the  sale  of  liquor  within 
any  such  described  area,  in  conformity  with  the  regulations,  upon  the 
payment  of  the  necessary  fee. 

15.  The  Chairnian  reported  in  regard  to  the  agreement  for  the  pay- 
ment of  $10,000  per  month  to  the  Panama  Railroad  Co.  for  telegraph 
and  telephone  service,  as  shown  in  paragraph  2  of  the  minutes  of  the 
one  hundred  and  fifty-eighth  meeting  of  the  Commission  held  on  Au- 
gust 25,  1910,  that  he  had  agreed  with  the  company  in  accordance 
with  the  recommendations  of  the  committee  representing  both  inter- 
ests to  reduce  the  payment  made  by  the  Commission  for  such  serv- 
ice to  the  sum  of  $7,000  permonth,  beginning  March  1,  1912. 

The  Chairman's  action  was  approved. 

16.  Upon  motion  it  was — 

Resolved,  That  such  of  the  Commission  dentists  as  have  been 
granted  the  privilege  of  family  quarters  may,  after  two  years'  satis- 
factory service,  be  assigned  to  the  same  class  of  quarters  to  which  an 
employee  drawing  $200  a  month  is  entitled. 


There  being  no  further  business  before  the  Commission,  the  meeting 
adjourned  at  8.30  a.  m.,  subject  to  the  call  of  the  Chairman. 


ONE  HUNDRED  AND  SIXTY-THIRD  MEETING. 

Culebra,  Canal  Zone,  April  &£,  1913. 

The  Commission  met  at  the  call  of  the  Chairman  at  2.30  p.  m. 

Present:  Commissioners  Goethals  (Chairman),  Hodges,  Gaillard} 
Sibert,  Rousseau,  Gorgas,  and  Thatcher. 

The  Commission  elected  the  Chairman's  Secretary,  Mr.  William 
H.  May,  as  Acting  Secretary  of  the  Commission  for  the  meeting. 

The  minutes  of  the  lG2d  meeting  were  read  and  approved. 

1.  The  Chairman  read  the  following  Executive  orders,  which  were 
ordered  to  be  spread  upon  the  minutes : 

Executive  Order. 

to  prevent  trespassing  upon  reservations. 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  vested  in  me,  I  hereby  establish  the  following 
Order  for  the  Canal  Zone : 

Section  1.  Every  person  who  shall  go  into  or  upon  any  reservation  or  other 
place  belonging  to  or  under  the  control  of  the  United  States  of  America,  the 
Canal  Zone  Government,  or  the  Panama  Railroad  Company,  after  such  reserva- 
tion or  place  has  been  posted  as  hereinafter  prescribed  in  this  Order,  and  with- 
out the  permission  of  the  person  in  charge  of  such  reservation  or  place,  shall 
be  deemed  guilty  of  trespassing;  and  upon  conviction  shall  be  punished  by  a 
fine  not  to  exceed  $25.00,  or  by  imprisonment  in  jail  not  to  exceed  30  days,  or 
by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment  in  the  discretion  of  the  court. 

Section  2.  The  posting  required  by  this  Order  shall  consist  of  printed  or 
painted  signs,  conspicuously  placed,  by  the  authority  of  the  Chairman  of  the 
Commission,  at  or  near  the  reservation  or  place  from  which  the  public  are  to 
be  excluded,  and  shall  in  plain  and  simple  words  warn  all  persons  against 
trespassing  upon  the  reservation  or  place. 

Section  3.  Every  person  who  wilfully  injures,  destroys,  or  removes  any 
sign  placed  or  erected  under  the  provisions  of  this  Order  shall  be  punished  by 
a  fine  not  to  exceed  $100.00,  or  by  imprisonment  in  jail  not  to  exceed  3  months, 
or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment  in  the  discretion  of  the  court. 

Section  4.  This  Order  shall  take  effect  60  days  from  and  after  this  date. 

Wm.  H.  Taft. 

The  White  House. 

April  11,  1912. 

[No.  1519.] 

1813 


MINUTES    OF    ISTHMIAN    CANAL    COMMISSION. 

Executive  Order.  . 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  vested  in  rue,  the  Executive  Order  of  May  13,  1911, 
providing  for  the  collection  of  a  distillation  tax  in  the  Canal  Zone,  is  amended 
as  follows: 

1.  The  output  of  each  still  may  be  measured  by  any  method  approved  by  the 
Chairman  of  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission,  if  in  his  opinion  measurement  by 
meter,  as  provided  in  section  3  of  said  Executive  Order,  is  not  satsfactory. 

2.  On  and  after  January  1, 1913,  the  right  to  operate  any  still  within  the  Canal 
Zone  shall  cease  and  determine,  and  any  person  who  shall,  on  or  after  that  date, 
manufacture  or  distill  any  of  the  spirits  or  alcoholic  liquors  enumerated  in  the 
Executive  Order  of  May  13,  1911,  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and,  upon 
conviction,  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  not  exceeding  One  Thousand  Dollars 
($1,000.00)  or  by  imprisonment  in  the  District  Jail  for  a  term  not  exceeding 
twelve  (12)  months,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment,  within  the  dis- 
cretion of  the  court. 

3.  This  order  shall  take  effect  from  and  after  this  date. 

Wm.  H.  Taft. 
The  White  House, 

May  21,  1912. 

[No.  1532.] 


Executive  Ordee. 

hours  of  service  of  laborers  and  mechanics  employed  upon  work  for  the 

united  states. 

.  By  virtue  of  the  authority  conferred  upon  me  by  Section  2  of  the  Act  entitled 
"An  Act  limiting  the  hours  of  daily  service  of  laborers  and  mechanics  employed 
upon  work  done  for  the  United  States,  or  for  any  Territory,  or  for  the  District 
of  Columbia,  and  for  other  purposes,"  approved  June  19,  1912,  the  provisions 
and  stipulations  in  said  Act  are  hereby  waived,  until  January  first,  nineteen 
hundred  and  fifteen,  as  to  any  contract  or  contracts  entered  into  in  connection 
with  the  construction  of  the  Isthmian  Canal. 

Wm.  H.  Taft. 
The  White  House, 

June  19,  1912. 

[No.  1547.] 


Executive  Order. 

consolidating  the  administrative  district  of  gorgona  with  that  of  empire, 

and  for  other  purposes. 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  vested  in  me  I  hereby  establish  the  following  order 
for  the  Canal  Zone. 

Section  1.  The  Administrative  District  of  Emperador  shall  be  known  here- 
after as  the  Administrative  District  of  Empire,  and  the  town  of  Empire  shall 
fee  the  head  of  the  District. 

Section  2.  The  Administrative  District  of  Gorgona  is  hereby  abolished,  and  the 
territory  heretofore  embraced  in  said  District  is  incorporated  into  the  Adminis- 
trative District  of  Empire  for  all  judicial,  administrative  and  political  purposes. 

Section  3.  The  District  Court  of  Gorgona  is  hereby  abolished,  and  all  cases, 
*ivil  or  criminal,  pending  in  said  Court,  at  the  time  this  order  takes  effect  are 


MINUTES    OF    ISTHMIAN    CANAL   COMMISSION.  1815 

transferred  to  the  District  Court  of  Empire,  to  be  tried  and  disposed  of  in  said 
court  in  like  manner  and  form  as  if  they  had  been  originally  instituted  therein, 
without  prejudice  to  any  rulings  or  orders  that  may  have  been  previously  made 
in  said  cases  by  the  District  Court  of  Gorgona  ;  and  all  process  issued  iu  said 
cases  made  returnable  to  the  District  Court  of  Gorgona  shall  be  returnable  to 
the  District  Court  of  Empire,  and  the  records  and  files  of  the  District  Court 
of  Gorgona  shall  be  transferred  to  and  become  a  part  of  the  records  and  files 
of  the  District  Court  of  Empire  as  soon  as  this  order  takes  effect. 

Section  4.  If  at  any  time  it  is  impracticable  to  assign  a  District  Judge  of 
one  district  to  hold  the  court  of  another  District  Judge,  the  Head  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  Civil  Administration,  with  the  approval  of  the  Chairman  of  the  Isthmian 
Canal  Commission,  shall  appoint  some  competent  person  to  act  as  a  special 
judge  to  hold  such  court  until  the  regular  judge  thereof  returns  to  his  duties, 
or  one  of  the  District  Judges  is  assigned  to  such  court  under  the  existing  laws. 
Any  person  appointed  special  judge  hereunder,  while  serving  in  that  capacity 
shall  receive  compensation  for  his  services  at  the  same  rate  as  that  paid  to  the 
regular  district  judge. 

Section  5.  The  powers  and  duties  heretofore  vested  in  and  imposed  on  the 
administrative  officers  of  the  District  of  Gorgona  are  hereby  transferred  to  the 
corresponding  administrative  officials  respectively  in  the  District  of  Empire; 
together  with  the  records  and  files  belonging  to  such  officers. 

Section  6.  The  areas  of  Gatun  Lake  lying  outside  of  the  east  and  west  lines 
of  the  Canal  Zone  proper  (original  ten  mile  strip)  and  the  lands  adjacent  to 
said  areas  up  to  contour  lines  of  one  hundred  feet  above  mean  sea  level,  are 
hereby  included  in  the  present  Cristobal  Administrative  District,  and  in  the 
Third  Judicial  Circuit,  for  all  judicial,  administrative  and  political  purposes; 
except,  that  part  of  the  Chagres  and  its  confluences  from  the  point  where  the 
said  river  intersects  the  eastern  line  of  the  Canal  Zone  proper,  thence  to  the 
eastward  up  to  contour  lines  of  one  hundred  feet  above  mean  sea  level,  which 
shall  be  included  in  the  Administrative  District  of  Empire  and  in  the  Second 
Judicial  Circuit  for  such  purposes. 

Section  7.  All  laws  and  orders  or  parts  thereof  in  conflict  with  this  order 
are  hereby  repealed. 

Section  8.  This  order  shall  take  effect  ten  days  from  and  after  this  date; 
provided,  that  the  office  of  senior  District  Judge  in  accordance  with  the  pre- 
existing laws  shall  continue  until  December  31,  1912,  at  wbich  date  the  said 
office  shall  cease  to  exist, — and  provided  further,  that  nothing  in  this  order 
shall  be  construed  to  deprive  any  judicial  or  administrative  officer  of  the  Dis- 
trict of  Gorgona  as  now  formed,  of  leave  of  absence  with  pay  that  may  be  due 
him  when  this  order  takes  effect. 

Wm.  H.  Taft. 

The  White  House, 

September  12th,  19l2. 

[No.  1605.] 


[panama  canal  toll  rates.] 

By  the  President  of  the  United  States  of  America. 

A  PROCLAMATION. 

I,  William  Howard  Taft,  President  of  the  United  States  of  America,  by 
virtue  of  the  power  and  authority  vested  in  me  by  the  Act  of  Congress,  approved 
August  twenty-fourth,  nineteen  hundred  and  twelve,  to  provide  for  the  opening, 
maintenance,  protection  and  operation  of  the  Panama  Canal  and  the  sanitation 


1816  MINUTES    OF    ISTHMIAN    CANAL    COMMISSION. 

and  government  of  the  Canal  Zone,  do  hereby  prescribe  and  proclaim  the  follow- 
ing rates  of  toll  to  be  paid  by  vessels  using  the  Panama  Canal : 

1.  On  merchant  vessels  carrying  passengers  or  cargo  one  dollar  and  twenty 
cents  ($1.20)  per  net  vessel  ton — each  one  hundred  (100)  cubic  feet — of  actual 
earning  capacity. 

2.  On  vessels  in  ballast  without  passengers  or  cargo  forty  (40)  percent  less 
than  the  rate  of  tolls  for  vessels  with  passengers  or  cargo. 

3.  Upon  naval  vessels,  other  than  transports,  colliers,  hospital  ships  and 
supply  ships,  fifty  (50)  cents  per  displacement  ton. 

4.  Upon  army  and  navy  transports,  colliers,  hospital  ships  and  supply  ships 
one  dollar  and  twenty  cents  ($1.20)  per  net  ton,  the  vessels  to  be  measured  by 
the  same  rules  as  are  employed  in  determining  the  net  tonnage  of  merchant 
vessels. 

The  Secretary  of  War  will  prepare  and  prescribe  such  rules  for  the  measure- 
ment of  vessels  and  such  regulations  as  may  be  necessary  and  proper  to  carry 
this  proclamation  into  full  force  and  effect. 

In  Witness  Whereof,  I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand  and  caused  the  seal  of 
the  United  States  to  be  affixed. 

Done  at  the  City  of  Washington  this  thirteenth  day  of  November  in 
[seal.]     the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  nine  hundred  and  twelve  and  of 
the  independence  of  the  United   States  the  one  hundred  and  thirty- 
seventh. 

Wm  H  Taft 
By  the  President  : 

P  C  Knox 

Secretary  of  State. 

[No.  1225.] 


Executive  Order. 
By  virtue  of  the  authority  vested  in  me  by  the  Act  of  Congress  entitled  "An 
Act  to  provide  for  the  opening,  maintenance,  protection  and  operation  of  the 
Panama  Canal  and  the  sanitation  and  government  of  the  Canal  Zone  ",  approved 
August  24,  1912,  I  hereby  declare  that  all  land  and  land  under  water  within  the 
limits  of  the  Canal  Zone  are  necessary  for  the  construction,  maintenance, 
operation,  protection  and  sanitation  of  the  Panama  Canal,  and  the  Chairman 
of  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission  is  hereby  directed  to  take  possession,  on 
behalf  of  the  United  States,  of  all  such  land  and  land  under  water;  and  he 
may  extinguish,  by  agreement  when  practicable,  all  claims  and  titles  of  adverse 
claimants  to  the  occupancy  of  said  land  and  land  under  water. 

Wm  H  Taft 
The  White  House, 

December  5th,  1912. 

[No.  1656.] 


Executive  Order 
to  amend  the  executive  order  providing  for  the  inspection  of  steam  vessels, 

approved  july  21,  1911. 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  vested  in  me,  I  hereby  establish  the  following 
Order  for  the  Canal  Zone : 

Section  1.  Section  10  of  the  Executive  Order  entitled  "  Executive  Order 
Providing  for  the  Inspection  of  Steam  Vessels,"  approved  July  21,  1911,  ie 
hereby  amended  to  read  as  follows: 


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Section  10.  Before  issuing  an  inspection  certificate  to  any  vessel,  the  Collec- 
tor of  Revenues  shall  demand  and  receive  from  the  owner  or  master  of  such 
vessel  the  following  compensation  for  inspection  and  examination  made  for  the 
year,  in  addition  to  any  fees  for  issuing  enrollments  and  licenses  now,  or  which 
may  hereafter  be,  allowed  by  law : 

For  each  steam  vessel  under  15  gross  tons $5.00 

For  each  steam  vessel  over  15  gross  tons  and  not  exceeding  100  gross  tons_  10.  00 
For  each  and  every  gross  ton  in  excess  of  100  gross  tons .05 

The  fees  herein  provided  for  shall  cover  the  cost  of  the  certificate,  as  well  as 
the  cost  of  inspection  and  examination  of  the  vessel,  and  shall  be  for  the  use 
and  benefit  of  the  Canal  Zone  Government. 

Section  2.  Section  18  of  the  above-mentioned  Executive  Order  is  hereby 
amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows : 

Section  18.  Every  vessel  coming  within  the  provisions  of  this  Order  shall  be 
provided  with  such  number  of  lifeboats,  floats,  rafts,  life-preservers,  line  carry- 
ing projectiles  and  best  means  of  propelling  them,  lights,  drags,  anchors,  and 
with  such  other  equipment,  as,  in  the  judgment  of  the  Board  of  Local  Inspec- 
tors, will  best  procure  the  safety  of  all  persons  on  board  such  vessels  in  case  of 
disaster.  And  every  such  vessel  shall  have  the  lifeboats  required  by  this  Order 
provided  with  suitable  boat  disengaging  apparatus,  so  arranged  as  to  allow  such 
boats  to  be  safely  launched  while  such  vessels  are  under  speed,  or  otherwise, 
so  as  to  allow  such  disengaging  apparatus  to  be  operated  by  one  person,  disen- 
gaging both  ends  of  the  boat  simultaneously  from  the  tackle  by  which  it  may 
be  lowered  to  the  water;  and  the  Board  of  Local  Inspectors  shall  determine 
the  kind  of  lifeboats,  floats,  rafts,  life-preservers,  line  carrying  projectiles  and 
means  of  propelling  the  same,  lights,  drags,  anchors,  and  other  equipment  which 
are  to  be  used  on  the  vessel ;  and  also  the  kind  and  capacity  of  the  pumps  for 
freeing  the  vessel  from  water  in  case  of  heavy  leakage,  the  capacity  of  such 
pumps  being  suited  to  the  navigation  in  which  the  vessel  is  employed. 

Section  3.  This  order  shall  take  effect  thirty  days  from  this  date. 

Wm  H  Taft 

The  White  House, 

January  13,  1918. 

[No.  1680.] 


Executive  Order. 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  vested  in  me  I  hereby  order  that  all  that  area  of 
land  in  the  Canal  Zone  known  as  Las,  Sabanas  be  excepted  from  the  provisions 
of  the  Executive  Order  of  December  5,  1912,  directing  the  Chairman  of  the 
Isthmian  Canal  Commisson  to  take  possession  on  behalf  of  the  United  States 
of  all  privately  owned  lands  in  the  Canal  Zone,  the  said  area  being  bounded  on 
the  south  by  the  present  limits  of  the  City  of  Panama,  on  the  southeast  by  the 
Pacific  Ocean,  on  the  northeast  by  the  boundary  line  of  the  Canal  Zone  from 
monument  99  for  a  distance  of  four  thousand  seven  hundred  and  forty-four  and 
five-tenths  (4744-5/10)  meters  to  monument  marked  "  F,"  on  the  northwest  by 
a  line  extending  from  said  monument  F  south  63  degrees  32  minutes  west  for  a 
distance  of  two  thousand  and  eight  and  six-tenths  (2008-6/10)  meters  to  the 
intersection  of  said  line  with  the  Corundu  River,  and  on  the  west  by  the 
Corundu  River  from  said  point  of  intersection  to  the  point  where  said  river 
crosses  the  present  boundary  line  of  the  City  of  Panama. 

Wm  H  Taft 

The  White  House,  * 

February  18,  1918. 

[No.  1704.] 


1818  MINUTES    OF    ISTHMIAN    CANAL    COMMISSION. 

Executive  Order. 

All  artisans,  citizens  of  the  United  States,  who  are  now  or  may  hereafter  be 
In  the  service  of  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission  and  who  have  rendered  one 
year's  satisfactory  service  on  the  Isthmus  of  Panama,  and  who  may  be  recom- 
mended, upon  discharge,  for  transfer,  may  be  transferred  within  three  years  to 
corresponding  positions  in  the  classified  service  under  the  several  Executive 
Departments  and  independent  Government  establishments,  without  examination, 
subject  to  the  other  provisions  of  the  civil  service  rules. 

Wm   H  Taft 

The  White  House, 

February  18th,  1913. 

[No.  1705.] 


Executive  Order. 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  vested  in  me  by  Section  5  of  the  Panama  Canal 
Act.  approved  August  24,  1912,  directing  the  President  to  "  provide  a  method 
for  the  determination  and  adjustment  of  all  claims  arising  out  of  personal 
injuries  to  employees  thereafter  occurring  while  directly  engaged  in  actual 
work  in  connection  with  the  construction,  maintenance,  operation  or  sanitation 
of  the  Canal,  or  of  the  Panama  Railroad,  or  of  any  auxiliary  canals,  locks  or 
Other  works  necessary  and  convenient  for  the  construction,  maintenance,  oper- 
ation or  sanitation  of  the  Canal,  whether  such  injuries  result  in  death  or  not,' 
and  prescribe  a  schedule  of  compensation  therefor,"  I  hereby  establish  the  fol- 
lowing Order  for  the  Canal  Zone : 

Section  1.  The  United  States  or  the  Panama  Railroad  Company  shall  pay 
compensation  as  hereinafter  specified  for  personal  injuries  to  their  respective 
employees  occurring  after  March  1st,  1913,  while  such  employees  are  directly 
engaged  in  actual  work  in  connection  with  the  construction,  maintenance, 
operation  or  sanitation  of  the  Canal,  or  of  the  Panama  Railroad,  or  of  any 
auxiliary  canals,  locks  or  other  works  necessary  and  convenient  for  the  con- 
struction, maintenance,  operation  or  sanitation  of  the  Canal,  whether  such 
injuries  result  in  death  or  not;  but  no  compensation  shall  be  paid  if  the  injury 
is  caused  (1)  by  the  employee's  intention  to  bring  about  the  injury  or  death 
of  himself  or  of  another,  or  (2)  by  his  intoxication. 

Section  2.  Compensation  the  exclusive  remedy. — Except  as  provided  in  this 
order,  the  United  States  and  the  Panama  Railroad  Company  shall  not  be  liable 
for  personal  injury  to  or  the  death  of  an  employee  for  which  compensation  is 
provided  in  Section  1  hereof. 

Section  3.  Waiting  Period. — During  the  first  five  days  of  disability  resulting 
from  the  injury  the  employee  shall  not  be  entitled  to  compensation,  except 
as  provided  in  section  9.  No  compensation  shall  at  any  time  be  paid  for  such 
period. 

Section  4.  Total  disability. — If  the  injury  results  in  total  disability,  there 
shall  be  paid  to  the  employee  a  monthly  compensation  equal  to  fifty  per  cent,  of 
his  monthly  pay.  This  compensation  shall  be  paid  during  such  disability,  not 
exceeding  a  period  of  six  years  from  the  fifth  day  of  disability  of  any  kind 
resulting  from  the  injury.  After  such  period  of  six  years  there  shall  be  paid 
to  the  employee  during  such  disability  a  monthly  compensation  equal  to  not 
more  than  forty  per  cent,  and  not  less  than  twenty-five  per  cent,  of  his  monthly 
pay. 

Section  5.  Partial  disability. — If  the  injury  results  in  partial  disability,  there 
shall  be  paid  to  the  employee  a  monthly  compensation  equal  to  fifty  per  cent. 


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of  the  difference  between  his  monthly  pay  and  his  wage  earning  capacity  per 
month  after  the  beginning  of  such  partial  disability.  This  compensation  shall 
be  paid  during  such  disability  for  a  period  not  exceeding  six  years  from  the 
fifth  day  of  disability  of  any  kind  resulting  from  the  injury.  After  such  period 
of  six  years,  there  shall  be  paid  to  the  employee  during  such  disability  a 
monthly  compensation  equal  to  not  more  than  forty  per  cent,  and  not  less  than 
twenty-five  per  cent,  of  the  difference  between  his  monthly  pay  and  his  wage 
earning  capacity  per  month  after  such  period  of  six  years. 

Section  6.  Affidavit  as  to  wages. — After  the  beginning  of  partial  disability 
the  Governor  of  the  Panama  Canal  may,  from  time  to  time,  require  the  injured 
employee  to  make  an  affidavit  as  to  the  wages  per  month  which  he  is  receiving. 
In  the  statement  of  the  wages  the  value  of  rent,  board,  lodging  and  other 
advantages  received  from  the  employer,  which  can  be  estimated  in  money,  shall 
be  taken  into  account.  If  the  employee  at  any  time  fails  to  make  such  affi- 
davit, he  shall  not  be  entitled  to  any  compensation  while  such  failure  con- 
tinues, and  the  period  of  such  failure  shall  be  deducted  from  the  period  during 
which  compensation  is  payable  to  the  employee. 

Section  7.  Refusal  to  tvork. — If  the  employee  refuses  to  work  after  suitable 
work  is  furnished  to  or  secured  for  him  by  the  United  States  or  the  Panama 
Railroad  Company  he  shall  not  be  entitled  to  any  compensation  while  such 
refusal  continues,  and  the  period  of  such  refusal  shall  be  deducted  from  the 
period  during  which  compensation  is  payable  to  the  employee. 

Section  8.  Sick  leave. — If  at  the  time  disability  begins  the  employee  has  to 
his  credit  any  unused  sick  leave,  he  may,  at  his  option,  subject  to  the  approval 
of  the  Governor  of  the  Panama  Canal,  use  such  leave  until  exhausted.  During 
such  time  no  compensation  shall  accrue,  and  any  period  of  sick  leave  allowed 
on  account  of  such  disability  after  the  first  five  days  of  disability  shall  be 
deducted  from  the  period  of  six  years  referred  to  in  Sections  4  and  5. 

Section  9.  Medical,  etc.,  attendance. — There  shall  be  furnished  to  the  injured 
employee  reasonable  medical,  surgical  and  hospital  services  and  supplies, 
unless  the  employee  elects  to  furnish  his  own  physician  or  to  care  for  himself. 
If  in  the  opinion  of  the  Governor  of  the  Panama  Canal  a  surgical  operation  ia 
necessary,  either  to  save  the  life  of  the  injured  employee  or  to  render  the  disa- 
bility less  serious,  and  the  employee  refuses  to  submit  to  such  operation,  he 
shall  not  be  entitled  to  any  compensation  thereafter,  but  in  case  of  his  death, 
compensation  shall  be  paid  as  hereinafter  provided. 

Section  10.  Transportation  of  injured  employees. — If  in  the  opinion  of  the 
Governor  of  the  Panama  Canal  it  is  not  desirable  to  continue  the  injured  em- 
ployee in  the  service,  such  employee,  as  soon  as  he  is  able  to  travel,  shall,  in 
the  discretion  of  the  Governor  of  the  Panama  Canal,  be  furnished  transporta- 
tion to  his  home.  If  at  the  time  of  the  injury  the  employee  is  on  the  Isthmus, 
the  Governor  of  the  Panama  Canal  may,  in  his  discretion,  suspend,  for  such 
period  as  such  employee  remains  on  the  Isthmus  after  free  transportation  has 
been  offered  to  him  as  herein  provided,  the  compensation  payable  to  such 
employee. 

Section    11.  Death   payments. — If   the   injury    results   in   death   within   six 
years,  there  shall  be  paid  to  the  following  persons  for  the  following  periods  a 
monthly   compensation   equal    to    the   following    percentages   of   the   deceased 
employee's  monthly  pay : 
A  To  the  widow  or  widower  if  there  is  no  child: 

If  wholly  dependent  for  support  upon  the  deceased  employee  at  the  time 
of  the  death,  thirty-five  per  cent,  for  a  period  of  six  years  from  the 
date  of  the  death,  unless  before  that  time  such  widow  or  widower 
dies  or  marries;  after  such  period  of  six  years  not  less  than  twenty 


1820  MINUTES   OP   ISTHMIAN   CANAL   COMMISSION. 

per  cent,  nor  more  than  thirty  per  cent,  until  death  or  marriage;  if 
partly  dependent,  the  compensation  shall  be  a  proportionate  amount 
of  the  above  compensation. 

B  To  the  widow  or  widower  if  there  is  a  child: 

The  compensation  payable  under  Clause  A,  and  in  addition  thereto  ten 
per  cent,  for  each  child,  not  to  exceed  a  total  of  fifty  per  cent,  for  self 
and  children ;  after  the  expiration  of  six  years  from  the  date  of  the 
death  the  total  for  self  and  children  shall  not  exceed  twenty-five  to 
forty  per  cent.  Compensation  payable  on  account  of  any  child  shall 
cease  when  he  dies,  marries,  or  reaches  the  age  of  eighteen,  or  if 
over  the  age  of  eighteen  and  incapable  of  self-support,  becomes  capable 
of  self-support. 

C  To  the  children  if  there  is  no  iDidow  or  widower: 

Twenty-five  per  cent,  for  one  child  and  ten  per  cent,  additional  for  each 
additional  child  not  to  exceed  a  total  of  fifty  per  cent,  divided  among 
such  children  share  and  share  alike.  After  the  expiration  of  six  years 
from  the  date  of  the  death  of  the  deceased  employee,  the  total  shall 
not  exceed  twenty-five  to  forty  per  cent.  The  compensation  of  each 
child  shall  be  paid  until  he  dies,  marries  or  reaches  the  age  of  eight- 
een years,  or  if  over  the  age  of  eighteen  and  incapable  of  self-support, 
becomes  capable  of  self-support. 

D  To  the  parents,  if  there  is  no  widow,  widower  or  child: 

If  one  is  wholly  dependent  for  support  upon  the  deceased  employee  at 
the  time  of  his  death  and  the  other  is  not  dependent  to  any  extent, 
twenty-five  per  cent ;  if  both  are  wholly  dependent,  twenty  per  cent,  to 
each;  if  one  is  or  both  are  partly  dependent  a  proportionate  amount  in 
the  discretion  of  the  Governor  of  the  Panama  Canal.  This  compensa- 
tion shall  be  paid  for  a  period  of  eight  years  from  the  time  of  the 
death,  unless  before  that  time  the  parent  dies,  marries  or  ceases  to  be 
independent. 

E  To  the  brothers,  sisters,  grandchildren  and  grandparents,  if  there  is  no  widow, 
widower,  child  or  dependent  parent: 

If  one  is  wholly  dependent  upon  the  deceased  employee  for  support  at 
the  time  of  the  death,  twenty  per  cent. ;  if  more  than  one  are  wholly 
dependent,  thirty  per  cent.,  divided  among  them  share  and  share  alike. 
If  there  is  no  one  of  them  wholly  dependent,  but  one  or  mora  are 
partly  dependent,  ten  per  cent,  divided  among  them  share  and  share 
alike.  The  compensation  of  each  beneficiary  shall  be  paid  for  a  period 
of  eight  years  from  the  time  of  the  death  unless  before  that  time  he, 
if  a  grandparent  dies,  marries  or  ceases  to  be  dependent,  or,  if  a 
brother,  sister  or  grandchild,  dies,  marries  or  reaches  the  age  of 
eighteen  years,  or  if  over  that  age  and  incapable  of  self-support  be- 
comes capable  of  self-support. 

F  As  used  in  this  section,  the  term  "child"  and  "  children  "  include  step-children, 
adopted  children,  posthumous  children  and  illegitimate  children,  but 
do  not  include  married  children.  The  terms  "brother"  and  "sister" 
and  their  plurals  include  stepbrothers,  and  stepsisters,  half-brothers 
and  half-sisters,  and  brothers  and  sisters  adopted  by  the  parent  of 
the  deceased  employee,  but  do  not  include  married  brothers  and  mar- 
ried sisters.  The  terms  "grandchild"  and  "grandchildren"  include 
children  of  adopted  children,  and  children  of  stepchildren,  but  do 
not  include  stop-children  of  children,  stepchildren  of  stepchildren, 
stepchildren  of  adopted  children  or  married  grandchildren.  All  of  the 
above  terms  include  only  persons  under  eighteen  years  of  age  or  over 


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that  age  and  incapable  of  self-support.     The  terms  "  parent "   and 
"  parents "   include  step-parents  and   the  parents  by  whom   the  de- 
ceased employee  was  adopted.    The  terms  "  grandparent  "  and  "  grand- 
parents "  include  the  parents  of  the  parents  by  whom  the  deceased 
employee  was  adopted,  but  do  not  include  parents  of  step-parents, 
step-parents  of  parents,  or  step-parents  of   step-parents.     The  term 
"  widow "  and  "  widower  "  include  only  the  decedent's  wife  or  hus- 
band actually  dependent  upon  him  or  her  for  support  at  the  time  of 
the  death. 
G  The  period  during  which  compensation  was  payable  to  the  deceased  em- 
ployee before  his  death  shall  be  deducted  from  the  period  of  six  years 
referred  to  in  Clauses  A,  B,  and  0,  and  from  the  period  of  eight  years 
referred  to  in  Clauses  D  and  E. 
H  Upon   the  cessation  of  compensation  under  this  section  to  or  on  account 
of  any  person,  the  compensation  of  the  remaining  persons  entitled  to 
compensation  for  the  unexpired  part  of  the  period  during  which  their 
compensation  is  payable,  shall  be  that  which  such  persons  would  have 
received  if  they  had  been  the  only  persons  entitled  to  compensation 
at  the  time  of  the  decedent's  death. 
Section  12.  Burial  expenses. — If  the  employee  dies  as  a  result  of  the  injury 
away  from  his  home,  office  or  outside  of  the  United  States  and  compensation 
has  not  ceased,  his  body  shall,  if  practicable,  or  if  desired  by  his  relatives,  and 
if  transportation  has  not  been  furnished  the  employee  under  Section  10  before 
his  death,  be  embalmed  and  transported  in  a  hermetically  sealed  casket  to  the 
home  of  the  employee  if  such  home  is  within  the  United   States.     If  death 
occurs  on  the  Isthmus  and  the  body  is  not  transported  away  from  the  Isthmus, 
the  body  shall  be  interred  on  the  Isthmus  at  the  expense  of  the  United  Stales 
or  of  the  Panama  Railroad. 

Section  13.  Computation  of  Pay. — If  the  monthly  pay  of  the  employee  is  over 
two  hundred  dollars  a  month,  the  monthly  pay  shall  be  considered  to  be  two 
hundred  dollars.  Subject  to  this  maximum,  the  monthly  pay  shall  be  computed 
as  follows : 

(A)  If  the  employee  is  paid  by  the  year  divide  his  yearly  pay  at  the  time  of 

the  injury  by  twelve ; 

(B)  If  the  employee  is  paid  by  the  month,  take  his  monthly  pay  at  the  time  of 

the  injury; 

(C)  If  the  employee  is  paid  by  the  week,  multiply  his  weekly  pay  at  the  time 

of  the  injury  by  fifty-two  and  divide  the  result  by  twelve; 

(D)  If  the  employee  is  paid  by  the  day,  multiply  his  daily  pay  at  the  time  of 

the  injury  by  twenty-six; 

(E)  If  the  employee  is  paid  by  the  hour,  multiply  his  hourly  pay  at  the  time 

of  the  injury  by  the  number  of  hours  constituting  a  day's  work  and 
multiply  the  result  by  twenty-six ; 

(F)  If  the  employee  is  paid  by  his  output;  find  his  hourly  pay  at  the  time  of 

the  injury  by  dividing  the  total  amount  earned  by  him  in  the  employ- 
ment in  which  and  at  the  rate  of  pay  at  which  he  was  employed  at  the 
time  of  the  injury,  during  so  much  of  the  thirty  days  next  preceding 
the  injury,  including  the  day  of  the  injury,  as  he  was  so  employed,  by 
the  number  of  hours  so  employed  during  such  thirty  days,  then  proceed 
as  in   (E)  ; 

(G)  In  making  the  computation  provided  in  Clauses  (E)  and  (F)  of  this  sec- 

tion, overtime  shall  not  be  taken  into  account; 
(H)    Subsistence  shall  be  included  as  part  of  the  pay. 


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Section  14.  Commutation  of  periodical  payments. — If  the  monthly  payments 
to  the  beneficiary  are  less  than  Five  dollars  per  month,  or  if  the  beneficiary  is 
not  a  citizen  of  the  United  States,  or  is  or  is  about  to  become  a  non-resident  of 
the  United  States,  or  if  the  Governor  of  the  Panama  Canal  determines  that  it 
is  for  the  best  interests  of  the  beneficiary,  the  liability  of  the  United  States  or 
of  the  Panama  Railroad  Company  for  compensation  to  such  beneficiary  shall 
be  discharged  by  the  payment  of  a  lump  sum  equal  to  two  thirds  of  all  future 
payments  of  compensation.  The  probability  of  the  beneficiary's  death  before 
the  expiration  of  the  period  during  which  he  is  entitled  to  compensation,  shall 
be  de'ermined  according  to  the  American  Table  of  Mortality.  The  probability 
of  the  happening  of  any  other  contingency  affecting  the  amount  or  duration  of 
the  compensation  shall  be  disregarded.    . 

Until  such  time  as  the  President,  under  the  authority  of  Section  4  of  the  Act 
of  August  24,  1912,  entitled  "An  Act  to  provide  for  the  opening,  maintenance, 
protection  and  operation  of  the  Panama  Canal  and  the  sanitation  and  govern- 
ment of  the  Canal  Zone,"  shall  discontinue  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission, 
compensation  shall  be  paid  in  a  lump  sum  in  all  cases,  unless  the  Chairman  of 
the  Is  hmian  Canal  Commission  in  any  case  determines  that  payment  in  in- 
stalments for  any  part  or  all  of  the  period  during  which  compensation  is  pay- 
able is  for  the  best  interests  of  the  United  States  or  of  the  Panama  Railroad 
Company  or  of  the  beneficiary. 

Section  15.  Payment  of  the  compensation  shall  be  made  to  the  beneficiary 
or  to  such  representative  as  the  Governor  of  the  Panama  Canal  may  determine. 

Section  16.  Determination  of  wage  earning  capacity. — In  the  determination 
of  the  employee's  wage  earning  capacity  after  the  beginning  of  partial  disability 
the  value  of  rent,  board,  lodging  and  other  advantages  which  are  received  from 
his  employer  and  which  can  be  estimated  in  money,  shall  be  taken  into  account. 

Section  17.  Notice  of  injury  or  death. — Immediately  after  the  injury,  the 
injured  employee  or  some  one  on  his  behalf  shall  give  to  the  immediate  superior 
of  such  employee  a  written  notice  of  the  injury,  and  if  the  injury  results  in  the 
death  of  the  employee,  one  of  the  persons  entitled  to  compensation  or  some  per- 
son on  his  behalf,  within  90  days  thereafter,  shall  give  to  the  immediate  superior 
of  such  employee  or  to  the  Governor  of  the  Panama  Canal  a  written  notice  of 
such  death.  The  notice  shall  state  the  name  of  the  employee,  his  class  of 
service,  the  year,  month,  day  and  hour  when  and  the  particular  locality  where 
the  injury  or  death  occurred,  the  cause  of  the  injury  or  death,  the  nature  of  the 
injury,  the  nature  and  extent  of  the  disability  resulting  therefrom,  and  the 
address  of  the  employee  and  of  the  person  giving  the  notice.  The  notice  may 
be  given  personally  or  sent  by  mail.  The  Governor  of  the  Panama  Canal  may, 
in  his  discretion,  waive  the  giving  of  a  notice. 

Section  IS.  Report  of  injury  or  death. — Immediately  after  an  injury  to  an 
employee  resulting  in  his  death  or  in  his  probable  disability,  the  immediate 
superior  of  the  employee  shall  at  once  make  a  report  to  the  Governor  of  the 
Panama  Canal,  containing  such  information  as  the  Governor  of  the  Panama 
Canal  may,  by  regulation,  require. 

Section  19.  Claim  for  compensation. — No  compensation  under  this  order  shall 
be  allowed  to  any  person  unless  he,  or  some  on  his  behalf,  shall  make  a  written 
claim  therefor  upon  the  Governor  of  the  Panama  Canal  within  the  time  specified 
in  Section  21.  The  claim  may  be  served  personally  upon  or  sent  by  mail  to  the 
Governor  of  the  Panama  Canal  or  to  such  person  as  he  may.  by  regulation, 
require. 

Section  20.  Contents  of  claim. — The  claim  shall  be  signed  by  the  person 
making  the  claim  and  shall  state  the  name  of  the  employee,  his  age,  sex, 
nationality  and  class  of  service,  the  year,  month,  day  and  hour  when  and  the 


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particular  locality  where  the  injury  or  death  occurred,  the  cause  of  the  injury 
or  death,  the  nature  of  the  injury,  the  nature  and  extent  of  the  disability 
resulting  therefrom ;  the  monthly  pay  of  the  employee  at  the  time  of  the  injury, 
the  relationship  of  the  person  entitled  to  compensation  to  the  employee,  the 
names  and  addresses  of  all  persons  entitled  to  compensation  on  account  of  such 
injury  or  death,  the  amount  and  duration  of  the  compensation  claimed,  and  the 
address  of  the  person  making  the  claim.  The  claim  shall  be  sworn  to  by  the 
person  entitled  to  compensation  or  by  the  person  acting  on  his  behalf,  and, 
except  in  case  of  death,  or  as  otherwise  provided  in  regulations  prescribed  by 
the  Governor  of  the  Panama  Canal,  shall  be  accompanied  by  a  certificate  of 
the  employee's  physician,  if  any,  stating  the  nature  of  the  injury,  and  the 
nature  and  extent  of  the  disability.  The  claim  shall,  wherever  possible,  be 
made  on  forms  furnished  by  the  Governor  of  the  Panama  Canal,  and  in  addition 
to  the  statements  above  required,  shall  contain  such  other  information  as  the 
Governor  of  the  Panama  Canal  may  require. 

The  Governor  of  the  Panama  Canal  may  waive  the  making  of  and  swearing 
to  claims  and  the  inclusion  therein  of  any  of  the  above  requirements  in  such 
cases  as  he  may  deem  proper. 

Section  21.  Time  within  which  claim  must  be  made.— Claims  for  compensa- 
tion shall  be  made  within  sixty  days  after  the  injury,  or,  in  case  of  death, 
within  one  year  after  the  death.  For  any  reasonable  cause  shown,  the  Gov- 
ernor of  the  Panama  Canal  may  allow  claim  for  injury  to  be  filed  within 
one  year  after  the  injury. 

Section  22.  Amendment  of  claim. — The  Governor  of  the  Panama  Canal  may, 
after  receipt  of  the  claim,  demand  a  further  claim  specifying  in  the  demand 
in  what  particular  the  claim  is  defective.  Failure  to  make  such  demand  shall 
constitute  a  waiver  by  the  United  States  or  by  the  Panama  Railroad  Com- 
pany, as  the  case  may  be,  of  all  defects  which  the  claim  may  contain.  After 
receipt  of  such  demand,  the  person  making  the  claim  may,  at  any  time  within 
60  days,  make  an  amended  claim  which  shall  supersede  the  first  claim  and 
have  the  same  effect  as  an  original  claim. 

Section  23.  Medical  examination. — -After  the  injury  and  during  disability 
the  employee  shall  as  frequently  and  at  such  times  aud  places  as  may  be 
reasonably  required  submit  himself  to  examination  by  a  medical  officer  of  the 
United  States  or  by  a  duly  qualified  physician  designated  by  the  Governor 
of  the  Panama  Canal  and  paid  by  the  United  States  or  by  the  Panama  Railroad 
Company,  as  the  case  may  be.  The  employee  may  have  a  duly  qualified 
physician  designated  and  paid  by  him  present  to  participate  in  such  examina- 
tion. Fo-  all  examinations  after  the  first,  the  employee  shall,  in  the  dis- 
cretion of  the  Governor  of  the  Panama  Canal,  be  paid  his  reasonable  traveling 
and  other  expenses  and  loss  of  wages  incurred  in  order  to  submit  to  such 
examination.  If  the  employee  refuses  to  submit  himself  for  or  in  any  way 
obstructs  any  examination,  his  right  to  claim  compensation  under  this  order 
shall  be  suspended  until  such  refusal  or  obstruction  ceases.  No  compensation 
shall  be  payable  while  such  refusal  or  obstruction  continues  and  such  period 
shall  be  deducted  from  the  period  for  which  compensation  would  otherwise 
be  payable. 

Section  24.  Disagreement  between  physicians. — In  case  of  any  disagreement 
between  the  phys'cian  making  an  examination  on  the  part  of  the  United 
States  or  the  Panama  Railroad  Company  and  the  employee's  physician,  the 
Governor  of  the  Panama  Canal  shall  appoint  a  third  physician,  duly  qualified. 
The  decision  of  the  majority  shall  be  final.  A  reasonable  fee  shall  be  allowed 
and  paid  by  the  United  States  or  by  the  Panama  Railroad  Company,  as  the 
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case  may  be,  to  such  third  physician  if  he  is  not  a  medical  officer  of  the  United 
States. 

Section  25.  Assignment  of  right  against  third  person. — If  an  injury  or  death 
for  which  compensation  is  payable  under  this  order  is  caused  under  circum- 
stances creating  a  legal  liability  in  some  person  other  than  the  United  States 
or  the  Panama  Railroad  Company  to  pay  damges  therefor,  no  compensation 
shall  be  payable  to  any  beneficiary  for  such  injury  or  death  until  he  assigns 
to  the  United  States  or  to  the  Panama  Railroad  Company,  as  the  case  may  be, 
any  right  of  action  which  he  may  have  to  enforce  such  liability  of  such  other 
person,  or  any  right  which  he  may  have  to  share  iu  any  money  (or  other 
property)  received  in  satisfaction  of  such  liability  of  such  other  person.  The 
United  States  or  the  Panama  Railroad  Company,  as  the  case  may  be,  if  it 
prosecutes  such  right  to  judgment  or  settlement  shall  after  deducting  the 
amount  of  any  compensation  already  paid  to  the  beneficiary  and  the  costs  of 
such  prosecution,  pay  over  to  the  beneficiary  any  surplus  remaining.  Such 
surplus  so  paid  over  shall  be  credited  on  future  instalments  of  compensation 
as  they  become  due.  The  Governor  of  the  Panama  Canal  may  waive  the 
requirement  of  such  assignment  or  may  waive  it  for  such  period  as  he  may 
deem  proper. 

Section  26.  Assignment  of  right  against  Panama  Railroad  Company. — If  an 
injury  or  death  for  which  compensation  is  payable  under  this  order  is  caused 
under  circumstances  creating  a  legal  liability  in  the  Panama  Railroad  Company 
to  pay  damages  therefor  under  the  laws  of  any  State,  Territory  or  possession 
of  the  United  States  or  of  the  District  of  Columbia  or  of  any  foreign  country, 
no  compensation  shail  be  payable  to  any  beneficiary  for  such  injury  or  death 
until  he  releases  to  the  Panama  Railroad  Company,  any  right  of  action  which 
he  may  have  to  enforce  such  liability  of  the  Panama  Railroad  or  until  he  as- 
signs to  the  United  States  or  to  the  Panama  Railroad  Company,  as  the  case 
may  be,  any  right  which  he  may  have  to  share  in  any  money  (or  other  property) 
received  in  satisfaction  of  such  liability  of  the  Panama  Railroad  Company. 
The  Governor  of  the  Panama  Canal  may  waive  the  requirement  of  such  assign- 
ment or  release  for  such  period  as  he  may  deem  proper. 

Section  27.  Assignments  and  attachments. — No  claims  for  compensation  un- 
der this  order  shall  be  assignable,  and  all  compensation  and  claims  therefore 
shall  be  exempt  from  all  claims  of  creditors.  This  section  is  hereby  constituted 
a  part  of  the  Laws  of  the  Canal  Zone. 

Section  28.  Attorneys'  fees. — No  claim  for  legal  services  in  connection  with 
any  claim  arising  under  this  order  shall  be  enforceable  unless  approved  by  the 
Governor  of  the  Panama  Canal.  This  section  is  hereby  constituted  a  part  of 
the  Laws  of  the  Canal  Zone. 

Section  29.  Modification  of  aUoxcance  of  compensation. — The  Governor  of  the 
Panama  Canal  may  at  any  time  review,  and,  in  accordance  with  the  facts  found 
in  such  review,  end,  diminish,  or  increase  any  compensation  previously  fixed  or 
determined. 

Section  30.  Recovery  of  compensation  erroneously  paid. — If  any  compensa- 
tion is  paid  under  mistake  of  law  or  of  fact  the  Governor  of  the  Panama  Canal 
shall  immediately  cancel  any  order  under  which  such  compensation  has  been 
paid,  and  shall  recover,  as  far  as  practicable,  any  amount  which  has  been  so 
paid. 

Section  31.  Powers  of  Governor  of  the  Panama  Canal. — The  Governor  of  the 
Panama  Canal  shall  make  all  necessary  rules  and  regulations  for  the  proper, 
effective,  and  economical  enforcement  of  this  order,  and  shall  decide  all  ques- 
tions arising  under  this  order  or  in  regard  to  the  interpretation  thereof.     His 


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determination  of  any  fact  necessary  to  or  underlying  any  claim  hereunder,  shall 
be  final  and  conclusive  upon  all  parties  and  claimants  or  beneficiaries. 

Section  32.  Powers  of  Chairman  of  Isthmian  Canal  Commission. — Until  such 
time  as  the  President,  under  the  authority  of  section  4  of  the  Act  of  August 
24,  1912,  entitled  "An  act  to  provide  for  the  opening,  maintenance,  protection 
and  operation  of  the  Panama  Canal,  and  the  sanitation  and  government  of 
the  Canal  Zone  "  shall  discontinue  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission,  and  until 
the  Governor  of  the  Panama  Canal  is  appointed  and  has  qualified,  all  the  rights, 
powers  and  duties  vested  in  the  Governor  of  the  Panama  Canal  by  this  order 
shall  be  exercised  by  the  Chairman  of  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission. 

Section  33.  Penalty  for  false  swearing. — Whoever  shall  make  in  any  affidavit 
required  under  section  6  or  in  any  claim  required  by  section  19,  any  statement, 
knowing  it  to  be  false,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  perjury  and  shall  be  punished 
by  a  fine  of  not  more  than  $5,000,  or  by  imprisonment  for  not  more  than  2 
years,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment.  This  section  is  hereby  con- 
stituted a  part  of  the  Laws  of  the  Canal  Zone. 

Section  34.  Singular  and  masculine. — -Wherever  used  in  this  order  the  singular 
includes  the  plural  and  the  masculine  gender  includes  the  feminine  and  neuter. 

Section  35.  Liability  of  United  States  and  of  Panama  Railroad  Company. — 
If  the  payment  of  compensation  under  this  order  on  account  of  an  injury  or 
death  is  to  be  made  from  the  funds  of  the  United  States,  the  Panama  Railroad 
Company  shall  be  released  and  discharged  from  all  liability  on  account  of  such 
injury  or  death,  and  if  it  is  to  be  made  from  the  funds  of  the  Panama  Rail- 
road Company  the  United  States  shall  be  released  and  discharged  from  all 
liability  on  account  of  such  injury  or  death.  This  section  is  hereby  constituted 
a  part  of  the  Laws  of  the  Canal  Zone. 

Section  36.  Repeal  of  Laios  of  Canal  Zone. — All  laws  of  the  Canal  Zone  in- 
consistent with  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  order  are  hereby  repealed.  This 
section  is  hereby  constituted  a  part  of  the  Laws  of  the  Canal  Zone. 

Section  37.  Time  of  taking  effect. — This  order  shall  take  effect  March  1, 
1913. 

Wm  H  Taft 

The  White  House, 

February  26th,  1913. 

[No  1722*.] 


Executive  Order. 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  vested  in  me,  I  hereby  establish  the  following 
Executive  Order  for  the  Canal  Zone : 

Sec.  1 :  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  hunt,  trap,  capture,  wilfully 
disturb  or  kill  any  bird  of  any  kind  whatever,  or  to  take  the  eggs  of  any  bird, 
except  in  the  form  and  manner  permitted  by  the  regulations  provided  for  by 
this  Order. 

Sec.  2:  The  Isthmian  Canal  Commission,  or  the  Governor  of  the  Panama 
Canal  after  the  reorganization  is  established,  is  hereby  empowered  and  directed 
to  enact  suitable  regulations,  from  time  to  time,  for  the  protection  of  birds  and 
their  nests,  and  prescribing  the  form  and  manner  in  which  birds  may  be  hunted, 
and  the  kinds  of  birds  that  may  be  hunted,  and  those  that  shall  not  be  molested. 

Sec.  3:  A  violation  of  any  of  the  regulations  established  under  this  Order 
shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  more  than  one  hundred  ($100.00)  dollars  or 
by  imprisonment  for  not  more  than  thirty  days  for  each  offense. 


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Sec.  4:  This  Order  shall  take  effect  thirty  days  after  its  publication  in  the 
Canal  Record. 

Woodrow  Wilson 
The  White  House, 

19  March,  1913. 

[No.  1749.] 


Executive  Order. 

to  amend  an  executive  order  approved  february  5,  1912,  providing  an  inex- 
pensive method  for  the  administration  of  the  estates  of  deceased  and 
insane  persons  in  certain  cases,  etc. 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  vested  in  me,  I  hereby  establish  the  following 
Executive  Order  for  the  Canal  Zone: 

Section  I.  That  Section  1  of  an  Executive  Order  entitled :  "  Executive  Order 
to  provide  an  inexpensive  method  for  the  administration  of  estates  of  deceased 
and  insane  persons  in  certain  cases,  and  to  repeal  Act  24  of  the  Canal  Zone 
laws  and  the  Executive  Orders  amendatory  thereto  ",  and  the  first  paragraph 
of  section  8  of  said  Order,  are  hereby  amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows: 

Section  1.  Whenever  an  employee  in  the  service  of  the  Isthmian  Canal  Com- 
mission, or  the  Government  of  the  Canal  Zone,  or  of  the  Panama  Railroad  Com- 
pany, shall  die,  leaving  an  estate  in  the  said  Zone,  or  whenever  such  decedent, 
being  a  citizen  of  the  United  States,  leaves  an  estate  in  the  Canal  Zone  or  in 
the  Republic  of  Panama  ;  and  the  said  estate  consists  of  personal  property  only 
and  a  regular  administration  shall  not  have  been  instituted  iu  the  Courts  of 
the  Canal  Zone  thereon,  the  Collector  of  Revenues  for  the  Canal  Zone  is  hereby 
authorized  and  directed  to  take  possession  of  the  estate  of  the  said  deceased 
person  and  to  make  a  complete  inventory  thereof  and  present  the  same  to  the 
Judge  of  the  Circuit  Court  of  the  First  Judicial  Circuit  of  the  Canal  Zone,  to- 
be  filed  by  the  said  Judge  in  the  records  of  his  court  when  approved  by  him. 

Section  8.  If  an  employee  of  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission,  the  Govern- 
ment of  the  Canal  Zone,  or  the  Panama  Railroad  Company  should  be  adjudged 
insane  by  the  Canal  Zone  Courts  and  the  estate  consists  entirely  of  personal 
property  and  no  regular  guardianship  of  such  estate  shall  have  been  instituted 
by  the  Canal  Zone  Courts,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Collector  of  Revenues  to 
take  possession  of  the  estate  of  such  insane  person,  including  any  salary  or 
other  acknowledged  claim  due  to  such  employee  by  the  Isthmian  Canal  Com- 
mission, the  Canal  Zone  Government  or  the  Panama  Railroad  Company,  and 
make  a  complete  inventory  thereof  and  file  the  same  with  the  Judge  of  the 
Circuit  Court  of  the  First  Judicial  Circuit  of  the  Canal  Zone,  and  under  the 
direction  and  with  the  approval  of  the  Judsje  of  said  court,  the  Collector  of 
Revenues  may  pay  the  lawful  indebtedness  due  by  the  insane  person,  as  well 
as  the  expenses  incurred  in  administrating  the  said  estate  and  he  shall  hold  the 
residue  of  the  estate  subject  to  the  orders  of  the  Circuit  Judge. 

Section  II  This  amendment  shall  apply  to  the  estates  of  employees  who  died 
or  became  insane  prior  to  this  date  as  well  as  to  those  who  die  or  are  adjudged 
insane  hereafter. 

Section  III.  This  order  shall  take  effect  from  and  after  this  date. 

Woodrow  Wilson 
The  White  House, 

March  20th,  1913. 

[No.  1751.] 


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Executive  Order 

relating  to  foreign  corporations. 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  vested  in  me,  I  hereby  establish  the  following 
Order  for  the  Canal  Zone. 

Section  I. 

No  corporation  or  joint  stock  company  (other  than  insurance  companies) 
organized  under  the  laws  of  any  State  or  Territory  of  the  United  States  or  of 
any  foreign  government  shall  do  business  in  the  Canal  Zone  until  after  it  has 
filed  in  the  office  of  the  Collector  of  Revenues  a  duly  authenticated  copy  of  its 
charter  or  articles  of  incorporation,  as  well  as  a  statement,  verified  by  the  oath 
of  the- president  or  secretary  of  said  corporation  and  attested  by  a  majority  of 
its  board  of  directors,  showing : 

1.  The  name  of  such  corporation  and  the  location  of  its  principal  office  or 
place  of  business  outside  of  the  Canal  Zone ;  and  if  it  is  to  have  any  place  of 
business  or  principal  office  within  the  Canal  Zone,  the  location  thereof. 

2.  The  amount  of  its  capital  stock. 

3.  The  amount  of  its  capital  stock  actually  paid  in,  in  money,  and  the  amount 
of  its  capital  stock  paid  in,  in  any  other  way,  and  in  what  way  the  payment 
was  made. 

4.  The  amount  of  assets  of  the  corporation  and  in  what  the  assets  consist,  and 
the  actual  cash  value  thereof. 

5.  The  liabilities  of  such  corporation,  and  if  any  of  its  indebtedness  is 
secured,  how  secured,  and  upon  what  property. 

6.  Such  other  evidence  as  the  Collector  of  Revenues  may  deem  necessary  to 
satisfy  him  of  the  financial  standing  or  solvency  of  the  corporation  or  company. 

Section  II. 

Such  corporation  or  joint  stock  company  shall  file  a  certificate  with  the 
Collector  of  Revenues,  certifying  that  said  corporation  or  joint  stock  company 
has  consented  to  be  sued  in  the  Canal  Zones  upon  all  causes  of  action  arising 
against  it  therein,  and  designating  the  Collector  of  Revenues,  and  his  successors 
in  office,  to  be  its  true  and  lawful  attorney,  upon  whom  all  process  in  any  such 
action  may  be  served;  and  it  shall  agree  that  any  lawful  process  against  it 
served  on  such  attorney  shall  constitute  a  valid  service  upon  it,  and  that  his 
authority  shall  continue  in  force  so  long  as  any  liability  against  it  remains 
outstanding  in  the  Canal  Zone. 

Such  power  of  attorney,  and  the  vote  authorizing  its  execution,  duly  certified 
and  authenticated,  shall  be  filed  in  the  office  of  the  Collector  of  Revenues,  and 
a  copy  thereof,  certified  by  him,  shall  be  sufficient  evidence  thereof. 

No  corporation  or  joint  stock  company  shall  do  business  in  the  Canal  Zone 
until  such  certificate  is  duly  filed  and  the  other  provisions  of  this  Order  are 
complied  with. 

Section  III. 

Upon  compliance  with  the  conditions  set  out  in  the  foregoing  section  of  this 
Order  and  the  payment  of  an  annual  fee,  in  advance,  of  $50.00,  to  the  Collector 
of  Revenues,  he  shall  issue  to  such  corporation  or  company  a  certificate  author- 
izing it  to  do  business  within  the  Canal  Zone.  Such  certificate,  however,  shall 
be  terminable  by  the  direction  of  the  Chief  Executive  of  the  Canal  Zone,  but  if 
terminated  without  fault  upon  the  part  of  the  corporation  or  joint  stock  com- 
pany, a  proportionate  rebate  of  the  license  fee  will  be  made  to  such  corporation 
or  company. 


1828  MINUTES   OP  ISTHMIAN"   CANAL   COMMISSION. 

Section  IV. 

Any  agent  or  person  representing  a  corporation  or  joint  stock  company  who 
does  business  in  the  Canal  Zone  before  such  corporation  or  company  has  com- 
plied with  the  provisions  of  this  order  shall  be  subject  to  a  fine  not  exceeding 
$25.00,  or  imprisonment  in  jail  not  exceeding  thirty  days,  and  each  day's  business 
so  done  by  such  agent  or  person  shall  be  considered  a  separate  offense  for  the 
purposes  of  this  order. 

Section  V. 

This  Order  shall  not  be  held  to  modify  the  provisions  of  an  Executive  Order 
relating  to  insurance  companies,  dated  March  12,  1907,  effective  July  1,  1907. 

Section  VI. 

This  Order  shall  take  effect  60  days  from  the  date  of  its  publication  in  the 
Canal  Record. 

Woodrow  Wilson 
The  White  House, 

March  20th,  1913. 

[No.  1752.] 


Executive  Order. 

Whereas,  an  Executive  Order  was  promulgated  on  Febiuary  26,  1913,  provid- 
ing a  method  of  compensation  for  personal  injuries  to.  or  for  the  death  of, 
employees  of  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission  and  of  the  Panama  Railroad  Com- 
pany, and  no  appropriation  has  been  made  available  for  the  payment  of  com- 
pensation under  the  terms  of  such  Order; 

And  whereas,  the  provisions  for  the  payment  of  claims  for  injuries  to,  or  for 
the  death  of,  employees  of  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission  and  of  the  Panama 
Railroad  Company,  in  force  prior  to  the  time  of  the  promulgation  of  said  Order 
of  February  26,  1913,  should  continue  until  the  Order  just  mentioned  can  be 
made  effective; 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  vested  in  me, 

It  is  Ordered,  That  the  operation  of  the  said  Order  of  February  26,  1913, 
is  hereby  suspended  until  further  executive  order  or  direct  ion  in  the  premises; 

And  it  is  Further  Ordered,  That,  until  such  further  order  or  direction,  pay- 
ment of  compensation  for  injuries  to,  or  for  the  death  of  employees  of  the  Isth- 
mian Canal  Commission  and  of  the  Panama  Railroad  Company,  occurring  after 
February  28,  1913,  shall,  as  before  that  date,  continue  to  be  made  in  accordance 
with  the  Act  of  Congress,  approved  May  30,  1908,  (35  Stat.  556),  being  "An  Act 
Granting  to  certain  employees  of  the  United  States  the  right  to  receive  from 
it  compensation  for  injuries  sustained  in  the  course  of  their  employment,"  the 
Act  of  Congress,  approved  February  24.  1909,  (35  Stat.  615),  being  "An  Act 
Relating  to  injured  employees  on  the  Isthmian  Canal,"  Section  5  of  the  Act  of 
Congress,  approved  March  4,  1911,  being  "An  Act  Making  appropriations  for 
sundry  civil  expenses  of  the  government  for  the  fiscal  year  ending  June  thirtieth, 
nineteen  hundred  and  twelve,  and  for  other  purposes,"  the  laws  of  the  Canal 
Zone,  and  the  rules  and  regulations  heretofore  made  in  regard  thereto. 

Woodrow  Wilson 
The  White  House, 

March  24,  1913. 

[No.  1755.] 


MINUTES   OP  ISTHMIAN   CANAL   COMMISSION.  1829 

2.  The  Commission  confirmed  its  action  by  letter  ballot  of  October 
M,  1912,  allowing  15  clays'  sick  leave,  with  pay,  to  Kafael  Neira  A., 
Inspector,  Department  of  Civil  Administration,  the  following  resolu- 
tion being  approved : 

Resolved,  That  15  clays'  sick  leave,  with  pay,  to  Kafael  Neira  A., 
Inspector,  Department  of  Civil  Administration,  be  authorized. 

3.  The  following  resolution,  adopted  by  letter  ballot,  authorizing 
Harry  A.  Kersey,  draftsman,  Office  of  the  Chief  Engineer,  to  enter 
July  25,  1912,  upon  42  clays'  leave  of  absence,  with  pay,  was  for- 
mally confirmed: 

Resolved,  That  Harry  A.  Kersey,  draftsman,  Office  of  the  Chief 
Engineer,  be  granted  42  clays'  leave  of  absence,  with  pay,  effective 
July  25,  1912,  which  ordinarily  would  not  be  due  until  August  11, 
1912. 

4.  The  following  resolution,  adopted  by  letter  ballot,  authorizing 
Lieut.  Col.  E.  T.  Wilson,  Subsistence  Officer,  to  enter  June  4,  1912, 
upon  42  days'  leave  of  absence,  with  pay,  was  formally  confirmed : 

Resolved,  That  Lieut.  Col.  E.  T.  Wilson,  Subsistence  Officer,  be 
granted  42  days'  leave  of  absence,  with  pay,  effective  June  4,  1912, 
which  ordinarily  would  not  be  due  until  July  14,  1912. 

5.  The  Commission  confirmed  its  action  by  letter  ballot  in  authoriz- 
ing payment  to  William  J.  Stratton,  General  Foreman,  Pacific  Divi- 
sion, for  42  days'  leave  of  absence,  with  pay,  effective  August  2,  1912, 
from  which  he  was  prevented  from  reporting  for  duty  within  15  days 
after  the  expiration  thereof,  on  account  of  illness,  the  following  reso- 
lution being  approved : 

Resolved,  That  payment  to  William  J.  Stratton  of  the  salary  due 
him  for  42  days'  leave  of  absence,  with  pay,  effective  August  2,  1912, 
be  authorized. 

6.  The  following  resolution,  adopted  by  letter  ballot,  authorizing 
Joseph  A.  Close,  transitman,  Pacific  Division,  to  enter  September  25, 
1912,  upon  42  days'  leave  of  absence,  with  pay,  was  formally  con- 
firmed : 

Resolved,  That  Joseph  A.  Clos**.,  transitman,  Pacific  Division,  bo 
granted  42  days'  leave  of  absence,  with  pay,  effective  September  25, 
1912,  which  ordinarily  would  not  be  due  until  September  26,  1912. 

7.  The  following  resolution,  adopted  by  letter  ballot,  authorizing 
Donald  F.  MacDonald,  geologist,  Office  of  the  Chairman,  to  enter 
December  16,  1912,  upon  42  days'  leave  of  absence,  with  pay,  was 
formally  confirmed: 

Resolved,  That  Donald  F.  MacDonald,  geologist,  Office  of  the 
Chairman,  be  granted  42  days'  leave  of  absence,  with  pay,  effective 
December  16,  1912,  which  ordinarily  would  not  be  due  until  Decem- 
ber 25,  1912. 


1830  MINUTES   OF  ISTHMIAN   CANAL   COMMISSION. 

8.  The  Commission  formally  confirmed  the  following  resolution, 
♦adopted  by  letter  ballot,  providing  for  a  reduction  in  the  amount  of 
rental  paid  by  the  Panama  Railroad  Company  to  the  Isthmian  Canal 
Commission  for  the  use  of  wharves  and  docks  under  the  lease  executed 
November  15,  1906,  on  account  of  the  demolition  of  a  portion  of  the 
lumber  dock  at  Balboa: 

Resolved,  That  on  account  of  the  abandonment  of  that  portion  of 
the  lumber  dock  at  Balboa  demolished  on  August  17,  1912,  and  here- 
tofore included  in  the  docks  and  wharves  leased  to  the  Panama  Rail- 
road Company  under  the  lease  executed  November  15,  1906,  the  an- 
nual rental  paid  thereunder  shall  be  reduced,  effective  August  17, 
1912,  by  $6,106.25,  which  represents  the  proportionate  rental  of  that 
part  of  the  lumber  dock  abandoned,  the  amount  of  reduction  being  in 
proportion  to  that  which  the  area  of  the  demolished  part  of  the  dock 
bears  to  its  total  area. 

9.  The  following  resolution  adopted  by  letter  ballot,  removing 
the  limit  on  the  amount  of  leave  which  may  be  accumulated  by  an 
employee,  was  formally  confirmed : 

Whereas  it  is  desired  to  keep  intact  such  of  the  Canal  organization 
as  will  be  needed  during  the  remainder  of  the  construction  period 
and  to  encourage  employees  to  remain  on  the  work  so  long  as  their 
services  may  be  needed,  be  it 

Resolved,  That,  effective  April  1,  1913,  the  limit  on  the  amount  of 
leave  which  may  be  accumulated  by  an  employee  shall  be  removed, 
and  thereafter  leave  may  be  accumulated  up  to  the  time  the  em- 
ployee's service  is  terminated  or  until  he  is  transferred  to  the  per- 
ment  organization  for  the  completion  and  operation  of  the  Canal. 
Provided,  however,  that  the  rules  heretofore  governing  the  forfeiture 
of  leave  for  unsatisfactory  workmanship  or  conduct  shall  continue 
unchanged.  An  employee  who  has  prior  to  April  1,  1913,  accumu- 
lated the  maximum  leave  allowed  under  the  present  rules  will  earn 
additional  leave  for  service  performed  on  and  after  that  date,  to  be 
computed  under  the  rules  as  at  present  in  force. 

10.  The  following  resolution  adopted  by  letter  ballot  of  June  5, 
1912,  was  formally  confirmed : 

Resolved,  That  the  Acting  head  of  the  Department  of  Civil  Ad- 
ministration be,  and  is  hereby,  authorized  to  take  the  necessar}^  steps 
for  the  issuance  of  licenses  for  the  retail  sale  of  liquor  in  the  Canal 
Zone  for  the  year  beginning  July  1,  1912,  to  the  following  applicants: 

Ctilebra:  Matachin: 

Vicente  Caruanos  E.                                     Lai  Wo. 

Lee  Hop.  Agapito  Centeno. 

Francisco  Wong.  Kwong  Sang. 

Wo  Chan.  Mar  Go. 

Ho  Chong  and  Leon  Chow.  Tai  Fan. 

Chong  Jan.  Empire: 

Ho  Kwong.  Mezele  Gustavo. 

William  G.  Bell.  Manuel  Leones. 


MINUTES   OF  ISTHMIAN   CANAL   COMMISSION.  1831 

Empire — Continued.  Gorgona — Continued. 

Jose  Sandi.  Antonio  Mas. 

Lai  Hing  &  Co.  George  Andrade. 

Vicente  Ansola  (new).  Gatun: 

Chee  Hing.  Pedro  Grau. 

Chong  Tai.  Wing  Kee. 

Yuen  Chong.  Tee  Kee. 

Wing  Wo.  Dario  Rodriguez. 

Wai  Loy.  John  B.   Schuetz. 

Curtis  A.  Brothers  (new).                          Julien  Joly. 

Antonio  Sun  (new).  Prudencio  San  Martin. 

Joaquin  Yun  Sang.  William  Enoch  Thibou. 
Gorgona: 

Esteban  Duran. 

Jacob  Kowalsky. 

11.  The  Commission  formally  confirmed  its  approval  of  the  amend- 
ment, adopted  by  letter  ballot,  to  paragraph  "A"  of  Section  7  of  the 
"  Regulations  providing  for  certain  taxes  and  licenses  in  the  Canal 
Zone  other  than  for  the  sale  of  intoxicating  liquors,"  under  which 
reciprocal  rates  are  provided  in  the  Republic  of  Panama  and  in 
the  Canal  Zone  on  all  animal-drawn  vehicles  employed  in  the  Repub- 
lic and  the  Zone  in  the  transportation  of  passengers  and  property 
for  hire  when  licensed  in  either  jurisdiction,  the  amendment  being 
as  follows: 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission: 

That  paragraph  (a),  section  7  of  the  Ordinance  entitled  "Regulations  Pro- 
viding for  Certain  Taxes  and  Licenses  in  the  Canal  Zone,  other  than  for  the 
Sale  of  Intoxicating  Liquors,"  enacted  by  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission  June 
9,  190S,  and  approved  by  the  Secretary  of  War  June  30,  190S,  as  said  paragraph 
(a)  was  amended  by  ordinance  enacted  by  said  Commission  August  25,  1910, 
and  approved  by  the  Acting  Secretary  of  War  October  31,  1910,  and  as  said 
paragraph  now  reads,  be  and  the  same  is  hereby  amended  so  as  to  read  as 
follows : 

Sec.  7.  (a)  For  the  operation  or  employment  of  public  vehicles  not  drawn 
or  propelled  by  steam,  gasoline,  electricity,  or  other  motor  power,  the  following 
license  taxes  shall  be  charged  and  collected,  to  wit:  For  each  coach,  carriage, 
or  other  conveyance  employed  in  the  transportation  of  passengers  for  hire, 
one  dollar  and  twenty-five  cents  ($1.25)  per  month;  for  each  cart,  dray,  wagon, 
or  other  conveyance  employed  in  the  transportation  of  freight,  merchandise,  or 
other  property  for  hire,  or  employed  by  any  merchant  in  the  transportation 
of  merchandise,  two  dollars  and  fifty  cents  ($2.50)  per  month  for  each  two- 
wheeled  vehicle,  and  five  dollars  ($5.00)  per  month  for  each  four-wheeled 
vehicle;  Provided,  however,  That  if  no  license  taxes  or  charges  are  imposed 
or  collected  in  the  Republic  of  Panama  for  the  employment  therein  of  vehicles 
of  the  character  in  this  paragraph  (a)  named,  or  of  either  class  thereof,  which 
are  duly  licensed  in  the  Canal  Zone,  to  residents  thereof,  for  employment 
therein,  there  shall  not  be  imposed  or  collected  in  the  Canal  Zone  any  license 
taxes  or  charges  for  the  employment  therein  of  like  vehicles  which  are  duly 
licensed  in  .the  Republic  of  Panama,  to  residents  thereof,  for  employment  in 
said  Republic. 


1832  MINUTES   OP  ISTHMIAN   CANAL  COMMISSION. 

12.  The  chairman  presented  statements  covering  changes  in  the 
status  of  employees  on  duty  in  the  United  States  for  the  period  from 
January  1,  1912,  to  June  30,  1912,  inclusive,  and  from  July  1,  1912, 
to  December  31,  1912,  inclusive,  all  of  which  were  ratified  and  con- 
firmed. 

13.  Upon  motion,  it  was — 

Resolved,  That  the  chairman  appoint  a  committee  of  four  members 
of  the  commission  to  investigate  and  recommend  to  the  commission 
plans  for  the  maintenance  of  the  Panama  Canal. 

14.  Upon  motion,  it  was — 

Resolved,  That  no  licenses  for  the  sale  of  intoxicating  liquors 
in  the  Canal  Zone  be  granted  by  the  commission  for  any  period  be- 
ginning on  or  after  July  1,  1913. 

15.  The  chairman  presented  statements  showing  the  appointments, 
promotions,  and  other  changes  in  the  personnel: 

(a)  In  the  Department  of  Construction  and  Engineering  for  the  weeks 
ending  April  6,  13,  20,  and  27 ;  May  4,  11,  18,  and  25 ;  June  1,  8,  15,  22,  and  29 ; 
July  6,  13,  20,  and  27 ;  August  3,  10,  17,  24,  and  31 ;  September  7,  14,  21,  and 
28 ;  October  5,  12,  19,  and  26 ;  November  2,  9,  16,  23,  and  30 ;  December  7,  14, 
21,  and  28,  1912;  January  4,  11,  18,  and  25;  February  1,  8,  15,  and  22;  March 
1,  8,  15,  22,  and  29,  1913. 

(6)  In  the  Department  of  Civil  Administration  for  the  weeks  ending  April 
6,  13.  20,  and  27;  May  4,  11,  18,  and  25;  June  1,  8,  15,  22,  and  29;  July  6, 
13,  20,  and  27 ;  August  3,  10,  17,  24,  and  31 ;  September  7,  14,  21,  and  28 ;  October 
5,  32,  19,  and  26;  November  2,  9,  16,  23,  and  30;  December  7,  14,  21,  and  28, 
1912:  January  4.  11,  IS,  and  25;  February  1,  8,  15,  and  22;  March  1,  8,  15,  22, 
and  29,  1913. 

(c)  In  the  Department  of  Sanitation  for  the  weeks  ending  April  6,  13,  20, 
and  27;  May  4,  11,  18,  and  25;  June  1,  8,  15,  22,  and  29;  July  6,  13,  20,  and 
27;  August  3,  10,  17,  24,  and  31;  September  7,  14.  21,  and  28;  October  5,  12, 

19,  and  26;  November  2,  9,  16,  23,  and  30;  December  7,  14,  21,  and  28,  1912; 
January  4,  11,  18,  and  25;  February  1,  8,  15,  and  22;  March  1,  8,  15,  22,  and 
29,  1913. 

(d)  In  the  Quartermaster's  Department  for  the  weeks  ending  April  6,  13, 

20,  and  27;  May  4,  11,  18,  and  25;  June  1,  8,  15,  22,  and  29;  July  6,  13,  20, 
and  27;  August  3,  10,  17,  24,  and  31;  September  7,  14,  21,  and  28;  October  5, 
12,  19,  and  26;  November  2,  9,  16,  23,  and  30;  December  7,  14,  21,  and  28, 
1912 ;  January  4,  11,  18,  and  25 ;  February  1,  8,  15,  and  22 ;  March  1,  8,  15,  22, 
and  29,  1913. 

(e)  In  the  Subsistence  Department  for  the  weeks  ending  April  6,  13,  20,  and 
27;  May  11  and  IS;  June  1.  15,  22,  and  29;  July  6,  13,  20,  and  27 ;  August  3, 
10,  17,  24,  and  31;  September  7,  14,  and  28;  October  5  and  26;  November  2, 
16,  and  25 ;  December  7,  14,  21,  and  28,  1912 ;  January  4,  11,  18,  and  25 ;  Feb- 
ruary 1,  8,  15,  and  22 ;  March  1,  8,  15,  22,  and  29,  1913. 

(/)  In  the  Department  of  Disbursements  for  the  weeks  ending  April  27; 
May  4,  11,  and  18;  June  8,  15,  and  29;  July  6,  13,  20,  and  27;  August  3,  10,  17, 
and  31;  September  7,  14,  21,  and  28;  October  12  and  19;  November  2,  9,  16, 
and  23;  December  7,  14,  and  28,  1912;  January  4,  11,  and  18;  February  1,  8, 
and  15;  March  3,  15,  and  22,  1913. 


MINUTES   OF  ISTHMIAN   CANAL  COMMISSION.  1833 

(g)  In  the  Department  of  the  Examination  of  Accounts  for  the  weeks  end- 
ing April  6,  13,  20,  and  27 ;  May  4,  11,  IS,  and  25 ;  June  1,  8,  15,  22,  and  29 ; 
July  6,  13,  20,  and  27 ;  August  3,  10,  17,  24,  and  31 ;  September  7,  14,  21,  and 
28;  October  5,  12,  19,  and  26;  November  2,  9.  16,  23,  and  30;  December  7,  14, 
21,  and  28,  1912 ;  January  4,  11,  IS,  and  25 ;  February  1,  8,  15,  and  22 ;  March 
1.  8,  15,  22,  and  29,  1913. 

(h)  In  the  Department  of  Law  for  the  weeks  ending  April  13  and  27;  May 
4;  June  15;  August  17;  September  21;  October  12  and  19;  November  30; 
December  14,  1912;  February  22,  1913. 

(i)   In   the   Isthmian   Canal    Commission   Band  for   the  weeks   ending  May 

4  and  11 ;  Juue  1,  22,  and  29 ;  August  3  and  10 ;  September  7  and  28 ;  October 

5  and  26;  November  2;  December  28,  1912;  January  4  and  18;  February  15 
and  22 ;  March  1,  8,  and  22,  1913. 

(/)  In  the  Panama  Railroad  Commissary  Department  for  the  weeks  ending 
April  6,  13,  20,  and  27 ;  May  4,  11,  IS,  and  25 ;  June  1,  8,  15,  22,  and  29 ;  July 
6,  13,  20,  and  27;  August  3,  10,  17,  24,  and  31;  September  7,  14,  21,  and  28; 
October  5,  12,  19,  and  26;  November  2,  9,  16,  23,  and  30;  December  7,  14,  21, 
and  28,  1912;  January  4,  11,  IS,  and  25;  February  1,  8,  15,  and  22;  March  1, 
8,  15,  22,  and  29,  1913. 

(fc)  In  the  Panama  Railroad  relocation  for  the  weeks  ending  April  6,  13,  20, 
and  27 ;  May  4,  11,  18,  and  25 ;  June  1,  8,  15,  22,  and  29 ;  July  6,  13,  and  27 ; 
August  3,  1912. 

(I)  In  the  Quartermaster's  Department,  Balboa  Agency,  for  the  weeks 
ending  March  15,  22,  and  29,  1913. 

All  of  which  were  ratified  and  approved. 


There  being  no  further  business  before  the  commission  the  meet- 
ing adjourned  at  3.55  p.  m.,  subject  to  the  call  of  the  chairman. 


ONE  HUNDRED  AND  SIXTY-FOURTH  MEETING. 

Culebra,  Canal  Zone,  September  10,  1913. 

The  Commission  met  at  the  call  of  the  Chairman  at  3.15  p.  m. 

Present:  Commissioners  Goethals  (Chairman),  Hodges,  Sibert, 
Rousseau,  Gorgas,  Metcalfe,  and  Secretary  Bishop. 

The  minutes  of  the  one  hundred  and  sixty-third  meeting  were  read 
and  approved. 

1.  The  Chairman  read  the  following  Executive  orders,  which  were 
ordered  to  be  spread  upon  the  minutes : 

Executive  Order. 

to  provide  maritime  quarantine  regulations  for  the  canal  zone  and  the 
harbors  op  the  cities  of  panama  and  colon,  republic  of  panama. 

Whereas  the  official  opening  of  the  Panama  Canal  will  require  a  revision  of  the  mari- 
time quarantine  regulations  for  the  Canal  Zone  and  the  harbors  of  the  cities  of  Panama 
and  Colon,  Republic  of  Panama,  and 

Whereas  the  Government  of  the  United  States  and  the  authorities  of  the  Canal 
Zone  are  authorized  to  establish  such  rules  and  regulations  for  the  ports  and  harbors 
of  said  cities,  by  virtue  of  the  second  paragraph  of  Article  VII  of  the  treaty  between 
the  United  States  and  the  Republic  of  Panama  for  the  construction  of  the  Isthmian 
Canal,  signed  November  18,  1903,  which  paragraph  reads  as  follows: 

"The  Republic  of  Panama  agrees  that  the  cities  of  Panama  and  Colon  shall  comply 
in  perpetuity  with  the  sanitary  ordinances  whether  of  a  preventive  or  curative  char- 
acter, prescribed  by  the  United  States  and  in  case  the  Government  of  Panama  is 
unable  or  fails  in  its  duty  to  enforce  this  compliance  by  the  cities  of  Panama  and 
Colon  with  the  sanitary  ordinances  of  the  United  States  the  Republic  of  Panama 
grants  to  the  United  Slates  the  right  and  authority  to  enforce  the  same  " 

and  section  6  of  the  Executive  Order  of  December  3,  1904,  known  as  the  Taft 
Agreement  made  between  the  Secretary  of  War  of  the  United  States  and  the  Chief 
Executive  of  the  Republic  of  Panama,  which  section  reads  as  follows: 

"Section  6.  This  order  also  shall  be  inoperative  unless  the  proper  Governmental 
authorities  of  the  Republic  of  Panama  shall  grant  power  to  the  authorities  of  the  Canal 
Zone  to  exercise  immediate  and  complete  jurisdiction  in  matters  of  sanitation  and 
quarantine  in  the  maritime  waters  of  the  ports  of  Panama  and  Colon." 

and  Article  I  of  Decree  No.  66  of  December  6,  1904,  issued  by  the  President  of 
Panama,  agreeably  to  said  Executive  Order,  and  published  in  the  Official  Gazette 
No.  70,  of  1904,  which  article  reads  as  follows: 

"Article  I.  The  authorities  of  the  Canal  Zone  are  empowered  to  exercise  freely, 
immediate  and  complete  jurisdiction  in  all  matters  of  sanitation  and  quarantine  in 
the  waters  of  the  ports  of  Panama  and  Colon.  In  consequence,  the  authorities  of  the 
Republic  shall  proceed  in  conformity  with  the  provisions  of  this  decree  to  the  end 
that  these  may  be  strictly  complied  with." 

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By  virtue  of  the  authority  vested  in  me  and  in  conformity  with  the  foregoin*  treaty 
provision  and  the  Executive  Order  and  Presidential  Decree  above  mentioned,  I 
hereby  establish  the  following  maritime  quarantine  regulations  for  the  Canal  Zone 
and  for  the  harbors  of  the  cities  of  Panama  and  Colon,  Republic  of  Panama: 

BILLS   OF  HEALTH. 

Section  1.— Masters  of  vessels  clearing  from  any  foreign  port  or  from  any  port  in  the 
possessions  or  other  dependencies  of  the  United  States  for  a  port  in  the  Canal  Zone 
or  for  the  ports  of  Panama  or  Colon,  Republic  of  Panama,  must  obtain  an  original 
bill  of  health  m  duplicate  from  the  officer  or  officers  authorized  by  the  quarantine 
laws  and  regulations  of  the  United  States  to  sign  such  certificates  for  vessels  entering 
the  ports  of  the  United  States.  . 

The  following  form  is  prescribed  for  such  bills  of  health: 

Form  No. 


Canal  Zone, 
original  bill  of  health. 

T> (tixe  Person  authorized  to  issue  the  bill,  at  the  port  of ),  do  hereby 

state  that  the  vessel  hereinafter  named  clears  from  the  port  of under  the  fol- 
lowing circumstances: 

Name   of   vessel,    .    Nationality,    — .     Rig,    .    Master     

Tonnage,  gross,  ;  net,  .     Iron  or  wood,  -— .     Number  of 'compart- 
ments for  cargo,  - — — ;  for  steerage  passengers, ;  for  crew, . 

Name  of  medical  officer, . 

Number  of  officers, ;  of  crew,  including  petty  officers, ;  of  passengers 

first  cabin, ;  second  cabin, ;  steerage, .     Officers'  families,  [ 

Total  number  of  persons  on  board, . 

Passengers  destined  for  the  Canal  Zone  or  the  city  of  Panama  or  Colon, first 

cabin, second  cabin, —  steerage. 

Previous  port, . 

Number  of  cases  of  sickness,  and  character  of  same,  during  last  voyage, . 

Number  of  cases  of  sickness,   and  character  of  same,  while  vessel 'was  in  this 
port, . 

Vessel  engaged  in  ■ trade,  and  plies  between and . 

Nature,  sanitary  history,  and  condition  of  cargo, . 

Source  and  wholesomeness  of  water  supply, . 

Source  and  wholesomeness  of  food  supply, . 

Sanitary  history  and  health  of  officers  and  crew, . 

Sanitary  history  and  health  of  passengers,  cabin, . 

Sanitary  history  and  health  of  passengers,  steerage, . 

Sanitary  history  and  condition  of  their  effects, 


Location  of  vessel  while    in  port-wharf,  ;  open  bay,  ;   distance  from 

shore, . 

Time  vessel  was  in  port, 


Character  of  communication  with  shore, . 

Sanitary  condition  of  vessel, . 

Sanitary  measures,  if  any,  adopted  while  in  port, . 

Sanitary  condition  of  port  and  vicinity, . 

Prevailing  diseases  at  port  and  vicinity, . 

Malaria, deaths  during  month  of . 

Number  of  cases  and  deaths  from  the  following-named  diseases  during  the  past  two 
weeks,  ending: . 


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1837 


Diseases 


No.  of 
cases 


No.  of 
deaths 


Yellow  fever 

Asiatic  cholera 

Cholera  nostras  or  cholerine 

Smallpox 

Typhus  fever 

Plague 

Leprosy 


Remarks. 

Any  condition  affecting  the  public  health  existing  in  the  port  of  departure  or 
vicinity  to  be  here  stated. 

When  there  are  no  cases  or  deaths,  entry  to  that  effect  must  be  made. 

I  certify  that  the  vessel  has  complied  with  the  Quarantine  Rules  and  Regulations 
made  under  the  act  of  February  15,  1893,  and  that  the  vessel  leaves  this  port  bound 
for ,  Canal  Zone,  or ,  Republic  of  Panama,  via . 

Given  under  my  hand  and  seal  this day  of ,  191 — . 

(Signature  of  Consular  Officer) . 


(seal)  . 

Section  2. — Vessels  clearing  from  any  foreign  port  or  from  any  port  in  the  posses- 
sions or  other  dependencies  of  the  United  States  for  a  port  in  the  Canal  Zone  or  for 
the  port  of  Panama  or  Colon,  Republic  of  Panama,  and  entering  or  calling  at  inter- 
mediate portsr  must  procure  at  all  said  ports  a  supplemental  bill  of  health  in  dupli- 
cate, from  the  officer  or  officers  authorized  by  the  quarantine  laws  and  regidations  of 
the  United  States  to  sign  such  certificates  for  vessels  entering  the  ports  of  the  United 
States.  If  a  quarantinable  disease  has  appeared  on  board  the  vessel  after  leaving  the 
original  port  of  departure,  or  other  circumstances  presumably  render  the  vessel  in- 
fected, the  supplemental  bill  of  health  should  be  withheld  until  such  sanitary  measures 
have  been  taken  as  are  necessary. 

The  following  form  is  prescribed  for  supplemental  bills  of  health : 

Canal  Zone 


SUPPLEMENTAL   BILL    OP    HEALTH 


Vessel 
Panama. 


bound  from 


to 


Sanitary  condition  of  port  and  vicinity 
Prevailing  diseases  at  port  and  vicinit . 
Malaria deaths  during  month  of  - 


Port  of 


Canal  Zone,  or 


Republic  of 


Number  of  cases  and  deaths  from  the  following-named  diseases  during  the  past  two 
weeks,  ending . 


Diseases 


No.  of 

cases 


No.  of 
deaths 


Remarks.  (Any  condition  affecting  the 
public  health  existing  in  the  port  to 
be  stated  here.  When  there  are  no 
cases,  or  deaths,  entry  to  that  effect 
must  be  made.) 


Yellow  fever 

Asiatic  cholera 

Cholera  nostras,  or  cholerine 

Smallpox 

Typhus  fever 

riague 

Leprosy 


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Number  and  sanitary  condition  of  passengers  and  crew  landed  at  this  port- 
First  cabin,  No. ;  sanitary  history  and  condition, 

Second  cabin,  No.  —   _•  sanitary  history  and  condition  L 

Steerage,  No. ;  sanitary  history  and  condition, . 

Crew,  No. ;  sanitary  condition  and  history'  — 

JTSei  a"y  *****  M  member  "'  ^  *->-".«  a-ount  of  Bicin«, 

J^ZXZ?Z^m°n  °f  ^^  a"Cl  ""  takM  "  -  ^  *>«,  and 

First  cabin,  No. ;  sanitary  condition  and  history  

Second  cabin,  No. ;  sanitary  condition  and  history  — 

Steerage,  No. ;  sanitary  condition  and  history, 


Number  of  passengers  for  Canal  Zone:  -        -  first'  cabin,' second  cabin, 


Number  of  passengers  for  Republic  of  Panama: first  cabin se~ond 

cabin, steerage.  eecona 

Crew,  No. ;  sanitary  condition  and  history, 

Sanitary  condition  of  effects, . 

Total  passengers  on  board, ;  total  crew  on  board, 

Sanitary  measures,  if  any,  adopted  while  in  port, 


^ocafemof  vessel  while  in  port-wharf,  -      -;'  open  bay, ;  distance  from 

Time  vessel  was  in  port, . 

Character  of  communication  with  shore, 


Nature,  sanitary  history,  and  condition  of  cargo  taken  on  at  this  port, 

(Cancel  Form  A,  B,  or  C,  as  the  case  requires) 
lorrn.  ^ 

(Form  A  will  be  used  at  intermediate 
ports  where  the  vessel  does  not  enter.) 

A-T,.    thP   Vw      f  t         !    i  ,    !n°  9uarantinaMe  disease  has  appeared 

A-lo    the   best   of   my   knowledge   and        aboard  since  leaving 

belief— 
B— I  have  satisfied  myself  that—  J 

C-Since  leaving  -_,  the  following  quarantinable  disease  has  appeared  on  board 
-,  and  I  certify  that  the  necessary  sanitary  measures  have  been  taken 
I  certify  also  that  with  reference  to  the  passengers,  effects,  and  cargo  taken  on  at 

o^FeClry  l5"ei893        C°mPlied  ^  ^  nileS  ^  re"ulatioQS  made  under  the  act 

Given  under  my  hand  and  seal  this day  of 191—. 

(Signature  of  consular  officer:) 

(seal)  _ 

Section  3.-The  master  of  a  vessel  entering  the  ports  of  the  Canal  Zo^eTr"the^orta 
of  Panama  and  Colon,  Republic  of  Panama,  from  any  port  of  the  United  States,  must 
present  to  the  Quarantine  Officer  and  to  the  Custom  Officer  of  the  Canal  Zone  or  his 
authorized  agent,  each  a  bill  of  health  signed  by  the  customs  officer  of  the  port  of  the 
united  btates  from  which  said  vessel  sails. 

Foreign  Regulations. 

INSPECTION    OP    VESSELS   PROM   FOREIGN   PORTS   AND   PORTS   IN   THE   DEPENDENCIES   OF 

THE    UNITED    STATES. 

Section  4.-The  officer  issuing  the  bill  of  health  shall  satisfv  himself,  by  inspect!  m 
if  necessary,  that  the  conditions  c  a-tified  to  therein  arc  true,  and  is  authorized  to  with- 


MINUTES   OF    THE  ISTHMIAN   CANAL   COMMISSION.  1839 

hold  the  bill  of  health  or  the  supplemental  bill  of  health  until  he  is  satisfied  that  the 
vessel,  the  passengers,  the  crew,  and  the  cargo  have  complied  with  these  regulations. 

Section  5. — Inspection  is  required  of— 

('at  All  vessels  from  ports  in  which  cholera,  yellow  fev.r,  or  plague  in  m  ,n  or  rodents 
prevails,  or  at  which  smallpox  or  typhus  [ever  prevails  in  epidemic  form,  and  at  which 
a  medical  officer  is  detailed. 

(b)  All  vessels  carrying  steerage  passengers;  hut  used  only  include  the  inspection 
o!  such  passengers  and  their  living  apartments,  if  sailing  from  a  healthful  port. 

(c)  Inspection  of  the  vessel  is  such  an  examination  of  the  vessel,  cargo,  passengers, 
crew,  personal  effects  of  same,  including  examination  of  manifests  and  other  papers, 
food  and  water  supply,  the  ascertainment  of  its  relations  with  the  shore,  the  manner 
of  loading  and  possibilities  of  invasion  by  rats  and  insects  as  will  enable  the  inspecting 
officer  to  determine  if  these  regulations  have  been  complied  with. 

(d)  When  an  inspection  is  required,  it  should  be  made  by  daylight,  as  late  as 
practicable  before  sailing.  The  vessel  should  be  inspected  before  the  passengers 
go  aboard,  the  passengers  just  before  embarkation,  and  the  crew  on  deck,  and  no 
communication  should  be  had  with  the  vessel  after  such  inspection  except  by  per- 
mission of  the  officer  issuing  the  bill  of  health. 

GENERAL   REQUIREMENTS. 

Section  6. — Vessels,  prior  to  stowing  cargo  or  receiving  passengers,  should  be 
mechanically  clean  in  all  parts,  especially  the  hold,  forecastle  and  steerage. 

Section  7. — Any  portions  of  the  vessel  liable  to  have  been  infected  by  any  com- 
municable disease  should  be  disinfected  before  the  issuance  of  the  bill  of  health. 

Section  8. — Street  sweepings,  city  cleanings,  or  anything  containing  organic  refuse 
should  not  be  taken  as  ballast  from  any  port. 

Section  9. — Bedding,  upholstered  furniture,  soiled  wearing  apparel,  personal  effects, 
and  secondhand  articles  of  a  similar  nature,  coming  from  a  district  known  to  be  in- 
fected with  cholera,  smallpox,  typhus  fever,  or  as  to  the  origin  of  which  no  positive 
evidence  can  be  obtained,  and  which  the  consular  or  medical  officer  has  reason  to 
believe  are  infected,  should  be  disinfected  prior  to  shipment.  In  the  case  of  typhus 
fever,  the  destruction  of  vermin  should  be  assured.  Articles  similar  to  the  above- 
mentioned,  if  from  a  district  infected  by  plague,  should  be  inspected,  and,  if  neces- 
sary, disinfected  and  treated  to  destroy  vermin. 

Section  10. — Articles  from  an  uninfected  district  shipped  through  an  infected  port 
may  be  accepted  without  restriction  if  not  exposed  to  infection  in  transit. 

Section  11. — Any  article  shipped  from  or  through  an  infected  port  or  place,  and 
which  the  consul  or  medical  officer  has  reason  to  believe  infected,  should  be  disin- 
fected. 

Section  12. — Any  article  presumably  infected,  which  can  not  be  disinfected, 
should  not  be  shipped. 

Section  13. — Passengers,  for  the  purpose  of  these  regulations,  are  divided  into  two 
classes,  cabin  and  steerage. (°) 

Section  14. — So  far  as  possible  passengers  should  avoid  embarking  at  a  port  where 
quarantinable  disease  prevails,  and  communication  between  the  vessel  and  the  shore 
should  be  reduced  to  a  minimum.  In  such  a  port  the  personnel  of  the  vessel  should 
remain  on  board  during  their  stay. 

Vessels  carrying  passengers  from  any  port  where  quarantinable  disease  prevails  in 
epidemic  form  should  have  a  medical  officer. 

(a)  The  sanitary  measures  applicable   to   second-cabin   passengers  will  be  those 
designated  for  first  cabin  passengers  or  for  steerage  passengers,  according  as  the  arrange- 
ments of  their  quarters  and  accommodations  aboard,  both  sanitary  and  for  association, 
class  them  in  the  opinion  of  the  inspecting  officer  with  the  first  cabin  or  steerage. 
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MINUTES   OP    THE  ISTHMIAN   CANAL  COMMISSION. 


Section  15.— No  person  suffering  from  a  quarantinable  disease,  or  scarlet  fever, 
measles,  diphtheria,  or  other  communicable  disease,  should  be  allowed  to  ship. 

Section  16. — All  baggage  of  steerage  passengers  destined  for  the  Canal  Zone,  or  the 
ports  of  Panama  or  Colon,  Republic  of  Panama,  should  be  labeled.  If  the  baggage 
is  in  good  sanitary  condition,  the  label  shall  be  a  red  Libel  bearing  the  name  of  the 
port,  the  vessel  on  which  the  baggage  is  to  be  carried,  the  word  "passed"  in  large 
type,  the  date  of  inspection,  and  the  seal  or  stamp  of  the  consular  or  medical  officer 
of  the  United  States.  All  baggage  that  has  been  disinfected  shall  bear  a  yellow  label, 
■upon  which  shall  be  printed  the  name  of  the  port,  the  vessel  upon  which  the  baggage 
is  to  be  carried,  the  word  "disinfected"  in  large  type,  the  date  of  disinfection,  and 
the  seal  or  stamp  of  the  consular  or  medical  officer  of  the  United  States.  It  is  under- 
stood, and  it  will  be  so  printed  on  the  blank,  that  the  label  is  not  valid  unless  bearing 
the  consular  or  medical  officer's  stamp  or  seal. 

Section  17. — -Each  steerage  passenger  shall  be  furnished  with  an  inspection  card 
as  follows.  This  card,  stamped  by  the  consular  or  medical  officer,  is  to  be  issued  to 
every  member  of  a  family  as  well  as  to  the  head  thereof,  and  shall  be  in  the  following 
form: 

Inspection  Card 


Port  of  departure 
Name  of  ship 


(Immigrants  and  steerage  passengers) 
-.     Date  of  departure  — — — . 


Last  permanent  residence 


Name  of  immigrant 


Inspected  and  passed  at 

Passed  at  quarantine,  port  of 

(Seal  or  stamp  of  consular  or  med- 

Canal  Zone  (or) 

Vaccinated 
(Signature  or  stamp) 

Republic  of  Panama 

(Date) 

(The  following  to  be  filled  in  by  ship's  surgeon  or  agent  prior  to  or  after  embarkation) 
Ship's  list  or  manifest .     No.  on  ship's  list  or  manifest . 


Berth  No. 


Steamship  inspection. 


Days 


1st,  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10,  11,  12  13,  14 


To  be  punched   by  ship's  sur- 
geon at.  daily  inspection 


Section  18. — Passengers  and  crews,  merchandise  and  baggage,  prior  to  shipment 
at  a  noninfected  port,  but  coming  from  an  infected  locality,  should  be  subject  to  the 
same  restrictions  as  are  imposed  at  an  infected  port. 

Local  inspection  of  vessels. 

Section  19. — Vessels  arriving  at  any  of  the  ports  of  the  Canal  Zone  or  the  cities  of 
Panama  and  Colon,  Republic  of  Panama,  under  the  following  conditions,  shall  be' 
inspected  by  the  quarantine  officer  of  the  port  prior  to  entry: 

(a)  Vessels  from  the  United  States;  (b)  Vessels  from  foreign  ports;  (c)  Vessels  with 
sickness  aboard;  (d)  Vessels  from  Panamanian  ports  where  any  quarantinable  disease 
prevails;  (e)  Vessels  from  Panamanian  ports  carrying  passengers  or  articles  suspected 
by  the  quarantine  officer  as  being  capable  of  conveying  the  infection  of  a  transmissible 
disease. 


MINUTES   OF    THE  ISTHMIAN   CANAL  COMMISSION.  1841 

Section  20. — The  limits  of  anchorage  of  vessels  awaiting  inspection  and  of  vessels 
undergoing  quarantine,  shall  be  fixed  from  time  to  time  by  the  Chief  Sanitary  Officer 
the  Canal  Zone. 

Section  21. — Every  vessel  subject  to  quarantine  inspection  shall  be  considered  in 
quarantine  until  granted  free  pratique,  and  such  vessels  shall  fly  a  yellow  flag  from 
the  foremast  head  from  sunrise  to  sunset  and  shall  observe  all  the  other  requirements 
of  vessels  actually  quarantined. 

Section  22. — The  captain  or  master  of  a  vessel  in  quarantine  shall  allow  no  com- 
munication with  his  vessel  except  as  provided  for  in  these  regulations,  nor  shall  any 
water  craft  approach  within  200  meters  of  any  such  vessel. 

Section  23. — No  person  or  article  shall  be  allowed  to  leave  a  vessel  in  quarantine 
without  written  authority  from  the  quarantine  officer. 

Section  24. — Towboats,  or  any  vessel  or  boat  having  had  communication  with  a 
vessel  in  quarantine  shall  be  submitted,  with  their  personnel,  to  such  measures  of 
sanitation  as  the  quarantine  officer  may  judge  to  be  necessary. 

Section  25. — No  person,  except  such  officers  of  the  port  as  are  required  to  do  so  by 
the  nature  of  their  duties,  and  the  agent  of  the  vessel,  if  such  agent  has  the  consent 
of  the  quarantine  officer,  shall  go  aboard  any  vessel  subject  to  quarantine  until  such 
vessel  has  been  granted  free  pratique.  Any  person  going  aboard  prior  to  the  issuance 
of  free  pratique  shall  be  subject  to  the  same  restrictions  as  the  personnel  of  the  vessel, 
if,  in  the  opinion  of  the  quarantine  officer,  this  is  necessary  for  the  protection  of  the 
public  health. 

Section  26.— The  quarantine  officer,  after  his  inspection  of  the  vessel  and  its  docu- 
ments, shall  decide  whether  said  vessel,  or  its  personnel,  or  passengers,  or  any  article 
aboard  said  vessel  is  liable  to  convey  any  of  the  following  diseases:  plague;  yellow 
fever,  cholera,  small-pox,  typhus  fever  or  leprosy;  and,  if  so,  such  vessel  shall  be  placed 
in  quarantine  and  forbidden  entry  until  the  period  of  incubation  of  such  diseases 
is  past,  and  he  shall  take  such  measures  in  respect  to  the  vessel,  its  passengers  or  per- 
sonnel or  cargo  as,  in  his  judgment,  may  be  required  to  prevent  the  entry  of  such 
diseases  into  the  Canal  Zone  or  the  cities  of  Panama  or  Colon,  Republic  of  Panama. 

Section  27. — Passengers  boarding  vessels  from  ports  subject  to  quarantine  will 
be  required,  in  the  discretion  of  the  Chief  Sanitary  Officer  of  the  Canal  Zone,  to  pre- 
sent personal  certificates  from  the  officer  authorized  by  these  regulations  to  sign 
bills  of  health,  certifying  to  their  sanitary  history  and  condition,  provided  due  notice 
has  been  issued  to  the  agents  of  the  steamship  companies  on  the  Isthmus  of  Panama. 

Section  28.- — Every  case  of  sickness  aboard  any  vessel  in  the  harbor  shall  be  imme- 
diately reported  by  the  master  of  the  vessel  to  the  quarantine  officer,  who  shall  see 
the  case  and  take  such  sanitary  measures  as  may  be  necessary. 

Section  29.— The  Chief  Quarantine  Officer  shall  have  charge  of  the  sanitation  of 
the  harbors  and  vessels  lying  therein  and  shall  see  that  such  measures  are  enforced 
as  are  necessary  for  the  proper  hygiene  of  vessels,  their  cargoes,  and  their  personnel, 
whether  in  port  or  en  route,  and  to  prevent  the  vessels  from  being  a  source  of  danger 
to  other  vessels  or  to  the  port,  and  he  is  authorized  to  certify  bills  of  health  to  vessels 
clearing  from  ports  under  his  jurisdiction,  setting  forth  in  such  bill  of  health  the  con- 
ditions of  the  port,  vessel,  cargo,  passengers  and  crew;  and  is  authorized  at  the  request 
of  the  master  of  any  vessel  to  disinfect  and  otherwise  place  such  vessel  in  a  sanitary 
condition  so  that  it  may  leave  the  port  in  free  pratique  and  be  able  to  make  entry 
at  the  port  of  destination  without  further  disinfection  or  detention  in  quarantine. 

Section  30. — The  quarantine  officer  shall  make  such  charges  for  the  disinfection  of 
vessels  and  their  cargos,  and  for  the  transportation  and  subsistence  of  passengers  while 
in  quarantine  as  may  be  fixed  from  lime  to  time  by  the  Governor  of  the  <  'anal  Zone. 

Section  31. — A  certificate  from  the  quarantine  officer  that  a  vessel  has  complied 
with  all  the  quarantine  regulations  shall  be  required  of  every  vessel  subject  to  inspec- 
tion, as  a  pre-requisite  for  customs  entry  or  passage  through  the  Canal. 


1842  MINUTES   OF    THE  ISTHMIAN    CANAL   COMMISSION. 

Section  32. — Quarantine  stations  shall  be  established  and  maintained  at  such 
places  as  may  be  decided  upon  by  the  Chief  Sanitary  Officer  of  the  Canal  Zone,  with 
the  approval  of  the  Governor. 

Persons  detained  in  quarantine  under  these  regulations  shall  not  be  permitted  to  go 
outside  the  limits  of  the  quarantine  station  until  discharged  therefrom  by  the  quaran- 
tine officer  and  if  any  such  person  shall  leave  the  quarantine  station  without  being 
duly  discharged  therefrom  he  may  be  taken  into  custody  by  the  quarantine  officers 
wherever  found  and  returned  to  the  quarantine  station  and,  in  addition,  he  may  be 
punished  as  hereinafter  described. 

No  person  except  the  Chief  Sanitary  Officer  of  the  Panama  Canal  or  his  representa- 
tive, the  quarantine  officers  and  employees  and  personnel  of  the  station  shall  be 
permitted  to  enter  in  or  upon  a  quarantine  station  without  permission  from  the  Chief 
Sanitary  Officer  or  the  Chief  Quarantine  Officer  of  the  Panama  Canal. 

Section  33. — The  Governor  of  the  Panama  Canal  may  establish  from  time  to  time 
such  rules  and  regulations  as  he  may  deem  necessary  to  execute  this  order. 

Section  34. — Any  person  violating  any  of  the  provisions  of  these  regulations  shall  be 
punished  by  a  fine  not  exceeding  $500.00,  or  by  imprisonment  in  jail  not  exceeding 
90  days,  or  both,  at  the  discretion  of  the  Court. 

Section  35. — The  medical  officers  of  the  Canal  Zone,  duly  clothed  with  authority 
to  act  as  quarantine  officers  at  any  port  or  place  within  the  Canal  Zone  and  the  ports 
of  the  cities  of  Panama  and  Colon,  Republic  of  Panama,  and  when  performing  the 
said  duties,  are  hereby  authorized  to  administer  oaths  and  take  declarations  there- 
under in  matters  relating  to  the  administration  of  the  quarantine  laws  and  regulations 
of  the  Canal  Zone  Government. 

Section  36.  —These  regulations  shall  take  effect  from  and  after  the  date  upon  which 
the  Panama  Canal  is  officially  and  formally  opened  for  use  and  operation,  by  proclama- 
tion of  the  President  of  the  United  States. 

Woodrow  Wilson 

The  White  House, 

15  April,  1913. 

[No.  1761.] 


Executive  Order. 

Under  authority  vested  in  me  by  law,  it  is  ordered: 

That  paragraph  1  of  Executive  Order  No.  750,  dated  February  6,  1908,  providing 
for  jury  trials  in  the  Canal  Zone,  is  hereby  amended  to  read  as  follows: 

1.  In  all  criminal  prosecutions  in  the  Canal  Zone  for  felonies,  the  accused  shall 
enjoy  the  right  of  trial  by  an  impartial  jury  of  the  District  in  which  the  crime  shall 
have  been  committed,  to  be  chosen  as  follows: 
This  Order  shall  take  effect  on  and  after  July  4,  1913. 

Woodrow  Wilson 
The  White  House, 

June  30,  1913. 

[No.  1792.] 


Executive  Order, 
to  prohibit  the  unauthorized  use  of  flying  machines. 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  vested  in  me,  I  hereby  establish  the  following  order  for 
the  Canal  Zone: 

Section  1.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  operate  an  aeroplane,  balloon,  or 
flying  machine  of  any  kind  in  or  across  the  Canal  Zone  without  the  written  authority 
of  the  Chief  Executive  of  the  Canal  Zone. 


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Section  2.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  take  or  make  a  photograph,  picture 
or  sketch  of  any  kind  of  the  fortifications  or  other  military  works  in  the  Canal  Zone 
from  any  aeroplane,  balloon  or  flying  machine  of  any  kind  without  the  written  consent 
of  the  Chief  Executive  of  the  Canal  Zone. 

Section  3.  A  violation  of  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  order  shall  be  punishable  by 
a  fine  not  exceeding  One  Thousand  dollars  or  by  imprisonment  in  jail  not  exceeding 
one  year,  or  by  both  such  iine  and  imprisonment  in  the  discretion  of  the  Court. 

Section  4.  This  order  shall  takt^  effect  on  and  after  thirty  days  from  its  publication 
in  the  Canal  Record. 

Woodrow  Wilson 
The  White  House, 

7  August,  WIS. 

[No.  1810.] 


Executive  Order. 

Richard  Lee  Metcalfe  is  hereby  appointed  a  member  of  the  Isthmian  Canal  Com- 
mission at  the  rate  of  Fourteen  Thousand  Dollars  ($14,000.00)  per  annum,  effective 
this  date. 

Commissioner  Metcalfe  will  be  allowed  the  use  of  a  furnished  dwelling  house  on 
the  Isthmus  of  Panama  and  will  be  allowed  and  paid  his  actual  and  necessary  expenses 
while  away  from  the  Isthmus  on  official  business. 

Woodrow  Wilson 
The  White  House, 

August  9,  1913. 

[No.  1812.] 


2.  The  following  resolution,  adopted  by  letter  ballot,  authorizing 
Llewellyn  P.  Williamson,  physician,  Department  of  Sanitation  to 
enter,  August  24,  1913,  upon  42  days'  leave  of  absence,  with  pay,  was 
formally  confirmed : 

Resolved,  That  Llewellyn  P.  Williamson,  physician,  Department  of 
Sanitation,  be  granted  42  days'  leave  of  absence,  with  pay,  effective 
August  24,  1913,  which  ordinarily  would  not  be  due  until  October  15, 
1913. 

3.  The  following  resolution,  adopted  by  letter  ballot  of  May  9, 
1913,  authorizing  the  Head  of  the  Department  of  Law  to  approve 
for  payment  vouchers  and  pay  rolls  for  his  department  and  validating 
prior  payments  made,  was  formally  confirmed: 

Resolved,  That  the  Head  of  the  Department  of  Law  be,  and  hereby 
is,  authorized  to  approve  for  payment  vouchers  and  pay  rolls  cover- 
ing expenditures  for  the  Department  of  Law;  that  he  is  further 
authorized  to  designate  any  employee  of  the  Commission  to  approve, 
by  his  direction,  such  vouchers  and  pay  rolls  for  payment,  and  that 
approval  is  hereby  given  to  the  action  of  the  Head  of  the  Department 
of  Law  in  heretofore  approving  for  payment  vouchers  and  pay  rolls 
covering  expenditures  for  the  Department  of  Law. 

4.  The  Commission  formally  confirmed  its  action  by  letter  ballot 
of  August  4,  1913,  enacting,  in  pursuance  of  the  authority  contained 


1844  MINUTES   OF  ISTHMIAN   CANAL   COMMISSION. 

in  the  Executive  order  of  March  19,  1913,  the  following  regulations 
for  the  protection  of  birds  and  their  nests : 

Section  1.  Birds'  nests  and  eggs  shall  not  be  taken  nor  willfully  destroyed  or 
disturbed. 

Section  2.  No  bird  shall  be  held  or  sold,  nor  shall  any  bird  be  snared,  trapped, 
or  captured  by  any  device,  except  native  or  foreign  live  cage  birds  known  as 
parrots,  parrakeets,  macaws,  skylarks,'  and  canaries. 

Section  3.  Excepting  the  hereinafter-named  game  birds,  and  excepting  birds 
of  prey  in  pursuit  of  their  quarry,  no  bird  shall  be  hunted  or  killed,  shot  at,  or 
willfully  disturbed. 

Section  4.  During  the  periods  specified,  but  at  no  other  times,  the  following- 
named  game  birds  may  be  hunted  and  killed,  but  only  by  a  person  holding  a 
license  to  hunt  in  the  Canal  Zone : 

From  and  including  June  1  to  and  including  October  15  of  every  year :  The 
various  species  of  native  wild  ducks,  pigeons  and  doves,  and  the  native  game 
birds  belonging  to  the  families  of  birds  known  as  quail,  currasows,  and  guans. 

From  and  including  October  15  to  and  including  January  31  of  every  year: 
(a)  The  migratory  ducks  known  as  blue-winged  teal,  broad-bill,  mallard,  pintail, 
and  shoveler.  (&)  The  migratory  shore  birds  known  as  Wilsons  or  jacksnipe 
and  those  known  as  yellowlegs. 

Section  5.  The  taking  of  all  birds,  their  nests,  and  eggs  for  purely  scientific 
purposes  may  be  authorized  by  the  Chairman  of  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commis- 
sion, or  by  the  Governor  of  the  Panama  Canal,  provided  that  any  person  desir- 
ing such  authority  shall  first  submit  in  writing  satisfactory  evidence  of  his  or 
her  object,  which  shall  be  endorsed  by  some  known  ornithologist,  or  the  head 
of  a  scientific  institution  of  good  standing. 

Section  6.  Possession  of  a  bird,  or  any  part  thereof,  plumage,  nest,  or  egg 
shall  be  prima  facie  evidence  of  the  violation  of  these  regulations  upon  the 
part  of  the  person  having  it  in  possession. 

5.  The  following  resolution,  adopted  by  letter  ballot  of  May  9, 
1913,  covering  reimbursement  to  the  Panama  Railroad  Company  for 
the  amount  expended  by  it  in  paying  demurrage  claims  on  extra 
cement  steamers,  was  formally  confirmed : 

Whereas  the  Secretary  of  War  authorized  the  Panama  Railroad 
Company  to  charter  extra  vessels  to  carry  cement  to  the  Isthmus, 
and  whereas  the  Chairman  of  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission  agreed 
to  reimburse  the  Panama  Railroad  Company  for  the  actual  cost  of 
transportation  of  the  cement  whenever  such  vessels  were  used,  and 
whereas  the  Panama  Railroad  Company  has  been  required  to  pay 
demurrage  on  such  vessels  on  account  of  the  inability  to  unload  the 
cement  at  the  Isthmus  within  the  period  required  by  the  charter 
party,  and  whereas  the  Chairman  directed  the  Panama  Railroad 
Company  to  bear  the  demurrage  charges  resulting  from  the  over- 
lapping or  bunching  of  cement  ship  arrivals  at  the  Isthmus,  author- 
ized the  company  to  bill  such  charges  occurring  otherwise  directly 
to  the  Commission  and  has  approved  vouchers  in  payments  therefor, 
and  whereas  the  Auditor  for  the  War  Department  has  suspended 
vouchers  for  $15,780.00  and  $192.40  in  the  accounts  of  the  Disbursing 
Officer  of  the  Commission, 

Notv  Therefore  be  it  Resolved,  That  the  action  of  the  Chairman 
in  agreeing  to  pay  and  in  authorizing  the  payment  of  demurrage 
claims  on  cement  vessels  is  ratified  and  approved,  and  he  is  author- 


MINUTES    OF   ISTHMIAN    CANAL    COMMISSION.  1845 

izecl  to  approve  hereafter  claims  of  the  Panama  Railroad  Company 
for  amounts  expended  by  it  in  settling  claims  of  demurrage  on  cement 
vessels  in  such  cases  as  he  may  deem  proper. 

6.  The  Chairman  reported  in  regard  to  the  agreement  for  the  pay- 
ment of  $7,000  per  month  to  the  Panama  Railroad  Company  for  tele- 
graph and  telephone  service,  as  shown  in  paragraph  15  of  the  minutes 
of  the  162d  meeting  of  the  Commission,  held  on  April  26,  1913,  that 
recommendations  submitted  by  a  committee  representing  both  inter- 
ests relative  to  a  reduction  of  the  amount  paid  by  the  Commission 
for  such  service,  had  been  approved  by  his  office,  as  follows : 

The  monthly  payment  shall  be  reduced,  effective  July  1,  1913,  to  $5,000  per 
month,  which  shall  include  the  ccst  of  operation  and  maintenance,  the  latter 
term  to  cover  only  ordinary  repairs  and  renewals,  ordinary  installation  charges, 
and  such  construction  as  shall  not  exceed  a  cost  of  $100.  For  any  similar  items 
exceeding  a  cost  of  $100  the  Panama  Railroad  Company  shall  be  reimbursed 
by  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission,  such  amount  to  be  charged  to  the  division 
requesting  the  work. 

The  Panama  Railroad  Company  shall  bear  the  expense  of  changing  the  insu- 
lators on  the  relocated  line  and  also  the  cost  of  additional  equipment  installed 
or  permanent  improvements  made  for  use  after  the  construction  period  ends 
and  the  operating  period  of  the  canal  begins. 

The  Chairman's  action  was  approved. 

7.  The  Chief  Sanitary  Officer  having  expressed  the  opinion  that  if 
artificial  limbs  were  supplied  to  William  Phillips,  a  patient  in  Ancon 
Hospital,  he  might  be  enabled  to  help  himself,  thus  relieving  the 
Commission  of  the  cost  of  his  maintenance,  upon  motion  it  was 

Resolved,  That  artificial  limbs,  at  the  expense  of  the  Commission, 
be  furnished  William  Phillips,  check  No.  25624. 

8.  Upon  motion  it  was — 

Resolved,  That  the  resolution  adopted  by  the  Commission  at  its 
119th  meeting,  held  January  21,  1907,  be  amended  to  read  as  follows: 

All  vouchers,  pay  rolls,  and  public  bills  covering  expenditures  on 
the  Isthmus  shall  be  approved  for  payment  by  the  Chairman  of  the 
Commission,  or  by  his  direction,  or  by  the  head  of  the  respective 
departments  in  which  and  for  the  benefit  of  which  the  expenditures 
are  made,  except  expenditures  for  the  Departments  of  Disbursements 
and  Examination  of  Accounts,  for  which  approval  shall  be  by  the 
Chairman,  or  by  his  direction,  and  except  that  the  Chairman  of  the 
Commission  may  authorize  the  Chief  Quartermaster,  or  any  person 
in  the  Quartermaster's  Department,  by  direction  of  the  Chief  Quar- 
termaster, to  approve  vouchers  covering  purchases  of  materials  and 
supplies  on  the  Isthmus;  and 

Resolved,  further,  That  the  Commission  hereby  ratifies  the  ap- 
proval of  vouchers  heretofore  made  in  accordance  with  the  authority 
herein  granted. 

There  being  no  further  business  before  the  Commission,  the  meet- 
ing adjourned  at  5.40  p.  m.,  subject  to  the  call  of  the  Chairman. 


ONE  HUNDRED  AND  SIXTY-EIFTH  MEETING. 

Culebra,  Canal  Zone,  March  27,  1914- 

The  Commission  met  at  the  call  of  the  Acting  Chairman  at  2  p.  m. 

Present:  Commissioners  Goethals  (Chairman),  Hodges,  Sibert, 
Rousseau.  Metcalfe,  and  Secretary  Bishop. 

Absent :  Commissioner  Gorgas. 

The  minutes  of  the  one  hundred  and  sixty-fourth  meeting  were 
read  and  approved. 

1.  The  Chairman  read  the  following  Executive  orders,  which  were 
ordered  to  be  spread  upon  the  minutes : 

Executive  Order. 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  vested  in  me,  I  hereby  establish  the  following 
Executive  Order  for  the  Canal  Zone: 

Sec.  1 :  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  hunt,  trap,  capture,  wilfully 
disturb  or  kill  any  bird  of  any  kind  whatever,  or  to  take  the  eggs  of  any  bird, 
except  in  the  form  and  manner  permitted  by  the  regulations  provided  for  by 
this  Order. 

Sec.  2 :  The  Isthmian  Canal  Commission,  or  the  Governor  of  the  Panama 
Canal  after  the  reorganization  is  established,  is  hereby  empowered  and  directed 
to  enact  suitable  regulations,  from  time  to  time,  for  the  protection  of  birds  and 
their  nests,  and  prescribing  the  form  and  manner  in  which  birds  may  be  hunted, 
and  the  kinds  of  birds  that  may  be  hunted,  and  those  that  shall  not  be  molested. 

Sec.  3 :  A  violation  of  any  of  the  regulations  established  under  this  Order 
shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  more  than  one  hundred  ($100.00)  dollars  or 
by  imprisonment  for  not  more  than  thirty  days  for  each  offense. 

Sec.  4 :  This  Order  shall  take  effect  thirty  days  after  its  publication  in  the 
Canal  Record. 

Woodbow  Wilson 

The  White  House, 

19  March,  1913. 

[No.  1749.] 


Executive  Order. 

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RELATING    TO    BAIL    BONDS    AND    MONEY    DEPOSITS    IN    LIEU    THEREOF    AND    TO    AMEND 
SECTION  310  OF  CglMINAL  PROCEDURE  OF  THE  CANAL  ZONE. 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  vested  in  me,  I  hereby  establish  the  following 
Executive  Order  for  the  Canal  Zone: 

Section  1.  The  defendant  in  a  criminal  proceeding  before  a  District  Court 
of  the  Canal  Zone  m;iy  make  a  cash  deposit  in  lieu  of  a  bail  bond  in  form  and 
manner  as  provided  for  in  sections  305,  306  and  307  of  the  Criminal  Procedure 
Act  No.  15  of  the  Canal  Zone,  and  a  certificate  of  deposit  shall  be  issued  to  the 
defendant  by  the  judge  in  each  case. 

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Section  2.  Whenever  a  warrant  is  issued  by  any  court  or  judge  of  the  Canal 
Zoue  in  a  case  in  which  bail  may  be  admitted,  the  court  or  judge  issuing  such 
warrant  shall  endorse  theron  the  amount  of  bail  to' be  required  of  the  defendant 
to  secure  his  appearance  in  the  case,  and  the  officer  executing  the  warrant  may 
accept  a  bail  bond  or  money  deposit  in  lieu  thereof  in  the  sum  specified  in  the 
warrant,  and  in  the  form  prescribed  by  law,  and  the  bail  bond  or  money  deposit 
in  lieu  thereof  shall  be  forthwith  delivered  to  the  court  having  jurisdiction  of 
the  case,  and  a  receipt  for  such  bond  or  deposit  shall  be  given  to  such  officer  by 
the  clerk  of  the  court,  or  the  judge  thereof  if  the  case  is  pending  in  a  district 
court. 

When  an  arrest  is  made  without  a  warrant  in  conformity  with  law  in  a  mis- 
demeanor case,  and  for  any  reason  the  officer  making  the  arrest  is  unable  to  take 
the  offender  forthwith  before  a  magistrate,  he  may  accept  bond  or  a  cash  deposit 
in  lieu  thereof  from  the  offender  in  a  sum  not  exceeding  five  hundred  dollars  to 
secure  his  appearance  before  the  court  having  jurisdiction  of  the  case,  and  the 
offender  shall  then  be  released  from  custody  and  the  bond  or  cash  deposit  in 
lieu  thereof  shall  be  delivered  to  the  proper  officer  or  court  as  hereinbefore  pro- 
vided for  in  this  section. 

When  a  money  deposit  is  made  in  lieu  of  bail  bond,  the  deposit  shall  be  held 
and  disposed  of  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  sections  305,  306,  307  and 
311  of  the  Criminal  Procedure  of  the  Canal  Zone,  and  section  310  thereof,  as 
hereinafter  amended. 

Section  3.  That  section  310  of  the  Criminal  Procedure  of  the  Canal  Zone  is 
amended  to  read  as  follows: 

Section  310.  If  money  has  been  deposited  instead  of  bail,  and  the  defendant, 
at  any  time  before  the  forfeiture  thereof,  surrenders  himself  to  the  officer  to 
whom  the  commitment  was  directed,  in  the  manner  provided  in  the  two  preced- 
ing sections,  the  court  must  order  a  return  of  the  deposit  to  the  defendant,  upon 
producing  the  certificate  of  the  officers  showing  the  surrender,  and  upon  a  notice 
of  five  days  to  the  Prosecuting  Attorney,  with  a  copy  of  the  certificate. 

Section  4.  This  Order  shall  take  effect  from  and  after  its  publication  in  the 
Canal  Record. 

Woodrow  Wilson 

The  White  House, 

29  Aug.,  1913. 

[No.  1817.] 


Executive  Order, 
to  punish  deported  persons  who  return  to  the  canal  zone. 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  vested  in  me  I  hereby  establish  the  following 
Order  for  the  Canal  Zone : 

Section  1.  Any  person  who,  after  having  served  a  sentence  of  imprisonment 
in  the  Canal  Zone  and  after  being  deported  therefrom,  returns  to  the  Canal 
Zone  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  felony  and  punished  by  imprisonment  in  the 
penitentiary  for  a  term  of  not  less  than  six  months  nor  more  than  two  years, 
and  upon  the  completion  of  this  sentence  he  shall  be  removed  from  the  Canal 
Zone  in  accordance  with  the  laws  and  orders  relating  to  deportation.  An  entry 
into  the  Canal  Zone,  for  any  purpose,  shall  be  sufficient  to  constitute  a  return 
to  the  Zone  within  the  meaning  of  this  Order;  provided,  however,  that  in  a 
case  of  necessity  the  Chief  Executive  of  the  Canal  Zone,  in  his  discretion,  may 


MINUTES   OF   ISTHMIAN   CANAL   COMMISSION.  1849 

grant  a  permit  to  any  such  person  to  return  to  the  Canal  Zone  temporarily, 
but  should  he  remain  in  the  Canal  Zone  after  the  time  specified  in  the  permit 
he  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  violation  of  this  Order  and  punished  as  therein 
provided. 

Section  2.  The  Executive  Order  of  May  2,  1911.  providing  a  punishment  for 
deported  persons  who  return  to  the  Canal  Zone  is  hereby  repealed. 

Section  3.  This  Order  shall  take  effect  thirty  days  from  and  after  its  publi- 
cation  in  the  Canal  Record. 

Woodrow  Wilson, 
The  White  House, 

25  Sept.,  1918. 

[No.  1832.] 


Executive  Order, 
to  regulate  the  carrying  of  arms. 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  vested  in  me,  I  hereby  establish  the  following  order 
for  the  Canal  Zone: 

Section  1.  Anyone  who  carries  on  or  about  his  person  any  firearm,  dirk,  dag- 
ger or  other  knife  manufactui-ed  or  sold  for  the  purpose  of  offence  or  defence, 
or  any  slungshot,  sword-cane,  or  any  knuckles  made  of  metal  or  other  hard  sub- 
stance, shall  be  punished  by  fine  of  not  less  than  Five  Dollars  nor  more  than 
Twenty-five  Dollars,  or  by  imprisonment  in  jail  of  not  less  than  five  days  nor 
more  than  thirty  days,  or  by  both  such  fine. or  imprisonment  in  the  discretion 
of  the  court,  and  during  such  time  of  imprisonment  such  offender  may  be  put' 
to  work  upon  any  public  work  in  the  Canal  Zone. 

In  addition  to  the  punishment  herein  prescribed  for  unlawfully  carrying  arms, 
the  courts  shall  adjudge  the  seizure  and  confiscation  of  the  arms  unlawfully 
carried  by  the  offending  party  and  the  same  shall  be  disposed  of  in  such  manner 
as  the  Head  of  the  Department  of  Civil  Administration  shall  determine. 

Section  2.  The  preceding  section  shall  not  apply  to  a  person  engaged  in  the 
military  or  naval  service  of  the  United  States  or  as  a  peace  officer  or  officer 
authorized  to  execute  judicial  process  of  the  United  States  or  the  Canal  Zone, 
or  in  carrying  mail  or  engaged  in  the  collection  or  custody  of  funds  of  the 
United  States  or  the  Canal  Zone,  nor  to  a  member  of  a  gun  or  pistol  club  for 
the  promotion  of  target  practice,  a  certified  copy  of  the  constitution  and  by- 
laws of  which  have  been  approved  by  the  Head  of  the  Department  of 
Civil  Administration,  and  filed  with  the  Collector  of  Revenues,  when  such 
member  is  going  to  or  from  target  range,  and  engaged  in  practice  at  the 
target  rannge.  For  the  purposes  of  this  order,  a  certificate  of  membership  In 
the  gun  or  pistol  club  shall  be  issued  by  the  organization  and  approved  by  the 
Head  of  the  Department  of  Civil  Administration,  and  shall  entitle  the  holder  to 
carry  firearms  as  provided  for  in  this  section. 

Neither  shall  the  preceding  section  apply  to  any  person  authorized  to  have 
or  carry  arms  by  permit  granted  under  the  terms  and  conditions  named  In 
section  3  hereof. 

Section  3.  The  Head  of  the  Depai'tment  of  Civil  Administration  may  authorize 
the  granting  of  permits  to  have  and  carry  arms  as  follows: 

1.  To  hunt  upon  the  public  lands  of  the  Canal  Zone,  or  upon  the  lands  of 
private  persons  when  authorized  by  the  latter. 


1850  MINUTES   OF   ISTHMIAN    CANAL   COMMISSION. 

2.  To  have  arms  in  residences,  offices,  business  places  and  plantations ;  and  6o 
watchmen  or  overseers  of  plantations,  factories,  warehouses,  docks  or  piers. 

Applications  for  such  permits  shall  be  made  to  the  Head  of  the  Department 
of  Civil  Administration  and  shall  state  the  full  name,  residence  and  occupation 
of  the  applicant,  and  if  the  applicant  is  a  minor  it  shall  uot  be  granted  without 
the  written  consent  of  big  parent  or  guardian. 

The  Head  of  the  Department  of  Civil  Administration  shall  satisfy  himself 
by  due  inquiry  that  the  applicant  is  a  proper  person  to  have  a  permit  to  keep  or 
carry  arms,  and  he  may  grant  or  deny  the  application  as  to  him  may  seem 
proper. 

When  an  application  is  granted  by  the  Head  of  the  Department  of  Civil  Ad- 
ministration for  a  permit  to  hunt  he  shall  file  the  application,  with  his  approval 
endorsed  thereon,  with  the  Collector  of  Revenues,  who  shall  issue  a  permit  to 
the  applicant  upon  his  paying  the  Collector  of  Revenues  a  fee  of  one  dollar,  to 
be  covered  into  the  Treasury  of  the  Canal  Zone  Government. 

The  hunting  permits  issued  by  virtue  of  this  order  shall  authorize  the  holders 
thereof  to  have,  use  or  carry  a  gun,  rifle  or  other  similar  long  arm  for  hunting 
purposes  during  the  fiscal  year  for  which  the  permit  is  issued,  provided,  how- 
ever, that  such  permit  may  be  revoked  at  any  time  for  cause  by  the  Head  of 
the  Department  of  Civil  Administration. 

Section  4.  Anyone  who  engages  in  hunting  without  first  obtaining  the  permit 
provided  for  in  this  order  shall  be  subject  to  a  fine  not  exceeding  Twenty-five 
dollars  or  imprisonment  in  jail  not  exceeding  ten  days,  provided,  however,  that 
persons  engaged  in  the  land  or  naval  forces  of  the  United  States  shall  not  be 
required  to  obtain  a  permit  to  hunt  upon  the  public  lands  of  the  Canal  Zone. 

Section  5.  Penalties  for  infringements  of  this  order  imposed  upon  intoxicated 
or  disorderly  persons  shall  be  in  addition  to  the  punishments  authorized  by  law 
for  such  intoxicated  or  disorderly  conduct. 

Section  6.  Sections  449  to  460,  both  inclusive,  of  the  Penal  Code,  the  Execu- 
tive Order  of  December  1,  1909,  issued  by  the  Secretary  of  War  by  authority 
of  the  President,  amending  Sections  450  and  456  of  the  Penal  Code,  and  the 
Executive  Order  of  the  Secretary  of  War,  issued  by  authority  of  the  President, 
dated  November  3,  1911,  amending  Section  456  of  the  Penal  Code  as  amended 
by  the  Executive  Order  above  mentioned,  and  all  other  laws,  orders  and  decrees 
in  conflict  with  this  order  are  hereby  repealed. 

Section  7.  This  order  shall  take  effect  thirty  days  from  and  after  its  publica- 
tion in  the  Canal  Record. 

Woodrow  Wilson 

The  White  House. 

7  November,  1913. 

[No.  1857.] 


Executive  Order, 
fixing  the  rate  of  interest  on  money. 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  vested  in  me  I  hereby  establish  the  following 
Executive  Order  for  the  Canal  Zone : 

Section  I.  No  rate  of  interest  shall  be  allowed  in  excess  of  six  percentum  per 
annum  upon  any  contract  for  the  use  or  detention  of  money,  unless  the  same  is 
in  writing  and  the  interest  agreed  upon  must  not  exceed  twelve  percentum  per 
annum. 


MINUTES   OF   ISTHMIAN    CANAL   COMMISSION.  1851 

Section  II.  All  contracts  whatsoever  which  may  in  any  way,  directly  or  in- 
directly, violate  the  preceding  section  by  stipulating  for  a  greater  rate  of  interest 
than  twelve  pereentum  per  annum,  shall  be  void  and  of  no  effect  for  the  amount 
or  value  of  the  interest  only;  but  the  principal  sum  of  money  or  value  of  the 
contract  may  be  received  and  recovered. 

Section  III.  When  the  interest  received  or  collected  for  the  use  or  detention 
indirectly,  violate  the  preceding  section  by  stipulating  for  a  greater  rate  of 
interest  than  twelve  percentuni  per  annum,  shall  be  void  and  of  no  effect  for  the 
amount  or  value  of  the  interest  only ;  but  the  principal  sum  of  money  or  value 
of  the  contract  may  be  received  and  recovered. 

Section  III.  When  the  interest  received  or  collected  for  the  use  or  detenfion 
of  money  exceeds  the  rate  of  twelve  percentuni  per  annum,  it  shall  be  deemed 
to  be  usurious,  and  the  person  or  persons  paying  the  same,  or  their  legal  repre- 
sentatives, may  recover  from  the  person,  firm  or  corporation  receiving  such  inter- 
est, the  amount  of  the  interest  so  received  or  collected,  in  any  court  of  com- 
petent jurisdiction,  within  two  years  from  the  date  of  the  payment  of  such 
interest. 

Section  IV.  No  evidence  of  usury  shall  be  received  on  the  trial  of  any  case 
unless  the  same  shall  be  pleaded  and  verified  by  the  affidavit  of  the  party 
wishing  to  avail  himself  of  such  defense. 

Section  V.  This  Order  shall  take  effect  thirty  days  from  and  after  its  publica- 
tion in  the  Canal  Record. 

Woodrow  Wilson 

The  White  House, 

11  Nov.,  1913. 

[No.  I860.] 


By  direction  of  the  President,  it  is  ordered  that  the  total  compensation  of 
Professor  Emory  R.  Johnson,  who  was  appointed  a  Special  Commissioner  by 
Executive  Order,  dated  September  1,  1911,  is  hereby  fixed  at  Twenty-five  Thou> 
sand,  Three  Hundred  Dollars  ($25,300),  from  which  shall  be  deducted  any  pay- 
ments on  account  of  actual  expenses  and  per  diem  heretofore  made  to  him 
under  the  provisions  of  the  Executive  Order  of  September  1,  1911.  such  com- 
pensation covering  the  period  from  September  1,  1911.  to  October  •  4,  1913, 
inclusive. 

The  Isthmian  Canal  Commission  is  directed  to  provide  the  funds  needed  in 
the  execution  of  this  order. 

Linoley  M.  Garrison 

Secretary  of  War, 
War  Department, 

January  20,  1914. 


Executive  Oroer. 
TO  prevent  the  corrupt  influencing  of  agents,  employees  or  servants. 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  vested  in  me  I  hereby  establish  the  following 
Executive  order  for  the  Canal  Zone : 

Section  1.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  give,  offer  or  promise  to  an 
agent,  employee  or  servant,  any  gift  or  gratuity  whatever  without  the  knowl- 
edge and  consent  of  the  principal,  employer  or  master  of  such  agent,  employee 


1852  MINUTES   OF   ISTHMIAN    CANAL   COMMISSION. 

or  servant  with  intent  to  influence  his  action  in  relation  to  the  business  of  his 
principal,  employer,  or  master ;  or  for  any  agent,  .employee  or  servant,  without 
the  knowledge  and  consent  of  his  principal,  employer  or  master,  to  request  or 
accept  a  gift,  or  gratuity,  or  the  promise  of  any  gift  or  gratuity  whatever  bene- 
ficial to  himself,  under  an  agreement  or  with  an  understanding  that  he  shall 
act  in  any  particular  manner  in  respect  to  the  business  of  his  principal,  em- 
ployer, or  master;  or  for  any  agent,  employee  or  servant  authorized  to  procure 
materials,  supplies  or  other  articles  either  by  purchase  or  contract  for  his 
principal,  employer  or  master,  or  to  employ  servants  or  labor  for  his  pincipal, 
employer  or  master,  to  request  or  accept  or  agree  to  accept,  for  himself  or 
another,  directly  or  indirectly,  a  commission,  discount  or  bonus  from  the  per- 
son who  makes  the  sale  or  contract,  or  furnishes  such  materials,  supplies  or 
articles  or  from  the  person  who  renders  such  service  or  labor ;  or  for  any  per- 
son to  give  or  offer  to  such  agent,  employee,  or  servant  such  commission,  dis- 
count or  bonus. 

A  violation  of  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  order  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine 
of  not  less  than  ten  dollars  nor  more  than  five  hundred  dollars,  or  by  impris- 
onment in  jail  for  not  more  than  one  year,  or  both  such  fine  and  impris- 
onment in  the  discretion  of  the  Court. 

Section  2.  This  order  shall  take  effect  thirty  days  from  and  after  its  publica- 
tion in  the  Canal  Record. 

Woodrow  Wilson 

The  White  House, 

21  January,  1914. 

[No.- 1880.] 


Executive  Order. 
To  prevent  fire-hunting  at  night,  and  hunting  by  means  of  a  spring  or 

TRAP,  AND  TO  REPEAL  THE  EXECUTIVE  ORDER  OF  SEPTEMBER  8,   1909. 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  vested  in  me  I  hereby  establish  the  following 
order  for  the  Canal  Zone. 

Section  1.  Every  person  who  shall  hunt  at  night,  between  the  hours  of  sunset 
and  sunrise,  with  the  aid  or  use  of  a  lantern,  torch,  bonfire,  or  other  artificial 
light,  or  who  shall  hunt  by  the  use  of  a  gun  or  other  firearm  intended  to  be 
discharged  by  an  animal  or  bird,  by  means  of  a  spring  or  trap,  or  other  simi- 
lar mechanical  device,  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor. 

The  penalties  imposed  by  this  Order  shall  be  in  addition  to  the  punishments 
authorized  by  the  law  against  carrying  arms  without  a  permit. 

Sec.  2.  The  Executive  Order  of  September  8,  1909  amending  Section  454 
of  the  Penal  Code  of  the  Canal  Zone  is  hereby  repealed. 

Sec.  3.  This  order  shall  take  effect  thirty  days  from  and  after  its  publication 
in  the  Canal  Record. 

Woodrow  Wilson 

The  White  House, 

21  January,  .1914. 

[No.  1884.] 


MINUTES   OF   ISTHMIAN   CANAL   COMMISSION.  1853 

Executive  Order, 
to  establish  a  permanent  organization  for  the  panama  canal. 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  vested  iu  me,  I  hereby  euact  the  following  order, 
creating  a  permanent  organization  for  the  Panama  Canal,  under  the  Act  of 
Congress  "  To  provide  for  the  opening,  maintenance,  protection  and  operation 
of  the  Panama  Canal  and  the  sanitation  and  government  of  the  Canal  Zone," 
approved  August  24,  1912. 

Section  1.  The  organization  for  tbe  completion,  maintenance,  operation, 
government  and  sanitation  of  the  Panama  Canal  and  its  adjuncts  and  the 
government  of  the  Canal  Zone  shall  consist  of  the  following  departments,  offices 
and  agencies,  and  such  others  as  may  be  established  by  the  Governor  of  the 
Panama  Canal  on  the  Isthmus  or  elsewhere  with  the  approval  of  the  President, 
all  to  be  under  the  direction  of  the  Governor,  subject  to  the  supervision  of  the 
Secretary  of  War. 

department  of  operation  and  maintenance. 

There  shall  be  a  Department  of  Operation  and  Maintenance  under  the  imme- 
diate supervision  and  direction  of  the  Governor  of  the  Panama  Canal.  This 
Department  shall  be  charged  with  the  construction  of  the  Canal  and  with  its 
operation  and  maintenance  when  completed,  including  all  matters  relating  to 
traffic  of  the  Canal  and  its  adjuncts,  and  the  operation  and  maintenance  of 
beacons,  lights  and  lighthouses;  the  supervision  of  ports  and  waterways,  includ- 
ing pilotage ;  the  admeasuring  and  inspecting  of  vessels,  including  hulls  and  boil- 
ers; the  operation  and  maintenance  of  the  Panama  Railroad  upon  the  Isthmus, 
including  telephone  and  telegraph  systems ;  the  operation  of  locks,  coaling 
plants,  shops,  dry-docks  and  wharves;  office  engineering,  including  meteorology 
and  hydrography;  the  construction  of  buildings  and  sanitary  and  municipal 
engineering,  including  the  construction  and  maintenance  of  drainage  ditches, 
streets,  roads  and  bridges. 

PURCHASING   DEPARTMENT. 

There  shall  be  a  Purchasing  Department  under  the  supervision  and  direction 
of  the  Governor.  This  department  shall  be  charged  with  the  purchase  of  all 
supplies,  machinery  or  necessary  plant. 

SUPPLY  DEPARTMENT. 

There  shall  be  a  Supply  Department,  under  the  supervision  and  direction  of 
the  Chief  Quartermaster.  This  department  shall  store  and  distribute  all  mate- 
rial and  supplies  for  use  of  the  Panama  Canal  and  of  its  employees ;  and  for 
other  departments  of  the  Government  on  tbe  Isthmus  and  their  employees;  and 
for  vessels  of  the  United  States  and  for  other  vessels,  when  required.  The  Sup- 
ply Department  shall  operate  commissaries,  hotels  and  messes;  shall  be  in 
charge  of  the  maintenance  of  buildings,  the  assignment  of  quarters  and  the  care 
of  grounds;  shall  recruit  and  distribute  unskilled  labor;  and  shall  have  charge 
of  the  necessary  animal  transportation. 

ACCOUNTING  DEPARTMENT. 

There  shall  be  an  Accounting  Department  under  the  supervision  and  direction 
of  the  Auditor,  with  an  assistant  in  the  United  States.  The  duties  of  the  depart- 
ment shall  include  all  general  bookkeeping,  auditing  and  accounting,  both  for 


1854  MINUTES   OF   ISTHMIAN    CANAL    COMMISSION. 

money  and  property,  eostkeeping,  the  examination  of  payrolls  and  vouchers,  the 
inspection  of  time  books  and  of  money  and  property  accounts,  the  preparation 
of  statistical  data,  and  the  administrative  examination  of  such  accounts  as  are 
required  to  be  submitted  to  the  United  States  Treasury  Department;  and  the 
collection,  custody  and  disbursement  of  funds  for  the  Panama  Canal  and  the 
Canal  Zone.  These  same  duties  shall.be  performed  for  the  Panama  Railroad 
Company  on  the  Isthmus  when  not  inconsistent  with  the  charter  and  by-laws 
of  that  Company.  The  department  shall  be  charged  with  the  handling  of  claims 
for  compensation  on  account  of  personal  injuries  and  of  claims  for  damages  to 
vessels.  Within  the  limits  fixed  by  law,  the  duties  and  financial  responsibili- 
ties of  the  officers  and  employees  charged  with  the  receipt,  custody,  disburse- 
ment, auditing  and  accounting  for  funds  and  property  shall  be  prescribed  in 
regulations  issued  by  the  Governor,  with  the  approval  of  the  President.  The 
Auditor  shall  maintain  such  a  system  of  bookkeeping  as  will  enable  him  to 
furnish  at  any  time  full,  complete  and  correct  information  in  regard  to  the 
status  of  appropriations  made  by  Congress,  the  status  of  all  other  funds,  and 
the  amounts  of  net  profits  on  all  operations,  which  are  to  be  covered  into  the 
Treasury  as  required  by  the  Panama  Canal  Act. 

HEALTH  DEPARTMENT. 

There  shall  be  a  Health  Department  under  the  supervision  and  direction  of 
the  Chief  Health  Officer.  This  department  shall  be  charged  with  all  matters 
relating  to  maritime  sanitation  and  quarantine  in  the  ports  and  waters  of  the 
Canal  Zone  and  in  the  harbors  of  the  cities  of  Panama  and  Colon,  and  with  land 
sanitation  in  the  Canal  Zone,  and  sanitary  matters  in  said  cities  in  conformity 
with  the  Canal  Treaty  between  the  United  States  and  the  Republic  of  Panama 
and  existing  agreements  between  the  two  governments  thereunder,  and  all  mat- 
ters relating  to  hospitals  and  charities. 

EXECUTIVE   SECRETARY. 

There  shall  be  an  Executive  Secretary  who,  under  the  direction  of  the  Gov- 
ernor of  the  Panama  Canal,  shall  be  charged  with  the  supervision  of  all  matters 
relating  to  the  keeping  of  time  of  employees ;  to  postoffices,  customs,  taxes  and 
excises,  excepting  the  collection  thereof;  police  and  prisons;  fire  protection; 
land  offices;  schools,  clubs  and  law  library;  the  custody  of  files  and  records; 
and  the  administration  of  estates  of  deceased  and  insane  employees.  He  shall, 
in  person  or  through  one  of  his  assistants,  perform  the  duties  of  a  Shipping 
Commissioner.  He  shall  conduct  all  correspondence  and  communications  be- 
tween the  authorities  of  the  Canal  Zone  and  the  Government  of  the  Republic 
of  Panama  and  such  other  correspondence  as  may  be  given  him  in  charge  by 
the  Governor.  He  shall  have  charge  of  the  seal  of  the  Government  of  the  Canal 
Zone  and  shall  attest  such  acts  of  the  Government  as  are  required  by  law  to  be 
performed  and  done  under  the  seal. 

The  duties  herein  prescribed  for  the  foregoing  departments,  offices  and 
agencies  will  be  assigned  to  divisions  or  bureaus  thereunder  by  the  Governor 
of  the  Panama  Canal,  as  the  necessities  therefor  arise.  Each  of  the  foregoing 
departments  shall  discharge  such  further  duties  as  may  be  assigned  to  it  from 
time  to  time  by  the  Governor;  and  the  Governor,  with  the  approval  of  the 
President,  may  transfer  from  time  to  time  specific  duties  from  one  department 
to  another. 

Section  2.  The  organization  provided  for  in  Section  1  shall  be,  in  general, 
in  accordance  with  the  outline  chart  accompanying  the  memorandum  of  Jan. 


MINUTES   OP   ISTHMIAN   CANAL   COMMISSION.  1855 

27,  1014.  entitled  "  Memorandum  to  accompany  Executive  Order  of  Jan.  27, 
1914,  providing  for  a  permanent  organization  for  the  Panama  Canal ",  and 
officers  from  certain  departments  shall  be  detailed  in  accordance  with  that 
memorandum. 

Section  3.  This  order  shall  take  effect  from  and  after  the  1st  day  of  April, 
1914,  from  which  date  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission,  together  with  the  pres- 
ent organization  for  the  Panama  Canal  and  the  Canal  Zone,  shall  cease  to  exist, 
in  accordance  with  the  terms  of  the  above-mentioned  Act  of  Congress. 

Woodrow  Wilson 
The  White  House, 

January  27,  J914- 

[No.  1885.] 

[Memorandum  to  accompany  Executive  Order  of  January  27,  1914.  providing  for  a  per* 
manent  organization  for  the  Panama   Canal.] 

In  construing  and  carrying  out  the  foregoing  order,  I  direct  that  it  be  done 
with  the  following  considerations  in  view : — 

I  have  deemed  it  advisable  for  reasons  of  efficiency,  economy  and  good  ad- 
ministration to  have  all  the  activities  connected  with  the  Panama  Canal  under 
the  supervision  of  one  Cabinet  officer. 

The  troops  which  will  be  stationed  on  the  Canal  Zone  for  the  protection  of 
the  Panama  Canal  are  under  the  Secretary  of  War ;  the  Panama  Canal  Act 
provides  that  in  time  of  war  an  Officer  of  the  Army  shall  upon  the  order  of 
the  President  have  exclusive  authority  over  the  operation  of  the  Panama  Canal 
and  the  Government  of  the  Canal  Zone;  the  construction  of  the  Canal  has 
been  successfully  carried  on  under  the  supervision  of  the  Secretary  of  War; 
the  logical  conclusion  is,  therefore,  that  the  supervision  of  the  operations  of 
the  Panama  Canal  under  the  permanent  organization  should  be  under  the 
Secretary  of  War. 

It  is  directed  that  officers  shall  be  detailed  for  certain  duties  from  the  several 
departments  as  follows : 

As  Engineer  of  Maintenance,  an  Officer  of  the  Corps  of  Engineers,  U.  S. 
Army,  who  shall  act  as  Governor  in  the  absence  or  disability  of  the  Governor 
of  the  Panama  Canal. 

As  Superintendent  of  Transportation,  an  Officer  of  the  TJ.  S.  Navy. 

As  Electrical  Engineer,  an  Officer  of  the  Corps  of  Engineers,  TJ.  S.  Army. 

As  Captains  of  the  Terminal  Ports,  Officers  of  the  IT.  S.  Navy. 

As  Superintendent  of  Shops  and  Dry  Docks,  a  Naval  Constructor,  U.  S.  Navy. 

As  Chief  Health  Officer,  an  Officer  of  the  Medical  Corps,  U.  S.  Army. 

As  Superintendent  of  Hospitals,  an  Officer  of  the  Medical  Corps,  U.  S.  Army. 

As  Chief  Officer  of  the  Quarantine  Division,  an  Officer  of  the  U.  S.  Bureau 
of  the  Public  Health. 

As  Chief  Quartermaster,  an  Officer  of  the  Quartermaster  Corps,  IT.  S.  Army. 

The  organization  is  to  be  in  general  accordance  with  the  chart  accompanying 
this  memorandum,  except  that  all  of  the  various  divisions  and  sub-divisions 
need  not  be  established  until  in  the  opinion  of  the  Governor  it  is  desirable  to  do 
so,  the  organization  being  expanded  gradually  as  the  necessities  of  the  work 
require. 

Woodrow  Wilson 

January  27,  1914. 

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1856  MINUTES   OF   ISTHMIAN   CANAL   COMMISSION. 

Executive  Order. 

PROVIDING     CONDITIONS     OF     EMPLOYMENT     FOR     THE     PERMANENT     FORCE     FOR     THE 

PANAMA    CANAL. 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  vested  in  me  by  law,  it  is  hereby  ordered  that  the 
general  conditions  of  employment  governing  employees  on  the  Isthmus  of 
Panama,  necessary  for  the  completion,  care,  management,  maintenance,  sani- 
tation, government  and  operation  of  the  Panama  Canal,  the  Canal  Zone,  the 
Panama  Railroad,  and  other  adjuncts,  shall  be  as  follows: 

APPOINTMENT    AND    COMPENSATION. 

1.  The  salaries  or  compensation  of  employees  shall  in  no  instance  exceed  by 
more  than  twenty-five  per  centum  the  salaries  or  compensation  paid  for  the 
same  or  similar  services  to  persons  employed  by  the  Government  in  Continental 
United  States,  as  determined  by  the  Governor  of  the  Panama  Canal. 

2.  Service  must  be  satisfactory  to  the  head  of  the  department  in  which  em- 
ployed, and  employees  are  subject  to  the  regulations  of  the  Governor. 

3.  The  compensation  and  conditions  of  employment  of  persons  employed  in 
the  United  States  will  be  specified  in  provisional  appointments.  The  compensa- 
tion of  such  persons  will  begin  upon  date  of  embarkation  at  port  of  departure 
from  the  United  States,  and  they  will  be  granted  free  transportation  from  port 
of  departure,  including  meals  on  the  steamer,  but  no  compensation  or  expenses 
for  the  journey  to  the  port ;  but  former  employees  from  the  United  States  whose 
next  preceding  service  with  the  Panama  Canal  was  less  than  one  year  shall  be 
paid  only  from  date  of  entry  into  service  on  the  Isthmus,  and  will  be  allowed 
only  such  reduced  rates  of  transportation  to  the  Isthmus  as  may  be  available 
for  Government  employees.  Employees  appointed  at  an  hourly  rate  will  be 
paid  for  the  period  of  transit  to  the  Isthmus  on  the  basis  of  an  eight  hour 
day  exclusive  of  Sundays.  Except  in  case  of  discharge  or  other  separation  from 
the  service  beyond  the  employee's  control,  payment  of  salary  from  date  of  em- 
barkation to  date  of  arrival  on  the  Isthmus  will  not  be  made  unless  service  on 
the  Isthmus  continues  for  thirty  days. 

4.  All  officers  and  employees  in  the  service  of  the  Panama  Canal  except  those 
who  are  to  perform  the  duties  of  clerk,  bookkeeper,  stenographer,  typewriter, 
surgeon,  physician,  trained  nurse,  or  draftsman,  shall  be  exempt  from  examina- 
tion under  Civil  Service  rules,  and  appointments  to  clerical  positions  on  the 
Isthmus  of  Panama  paying  $75.00  per  month  or  less  may  also  be  made  without 
examination.  Officers  and  employees  now  in  the  service  of  the  Panama  Rail- 
road Company  on  the  Isthmus  may  be  transferred  to  and  retained  in  the 
service  of  the  Panama  Canal  without  examination,  whenever  any  work  now 
performed  independently  by  the  Panama  Railroad  is  consolidated  with  similar 
work  performed  by  the  Panama  Canal. 

5.  When  employees  in  the  present  organization  are  transferred  to  the 
permanent  organization,  they  shall  retain  their  seniority  as  regards  questions 
of  Civil  Service,  quarters,  and  other  privileges  or  considerations;  provided, 
however,  that  the  seniority  granted  to  employees  by  this  order  shall  not  be  op- 
erative in  any  case  so  as  to  form  any  claim  involving  the  payment  of  funds 
of  the  United  States. 

6.  All  employees  who  receive  over  $75.00  per  month  or  over  40^  per  hour 
must  be  citizens  of  the  United  States  or  the  Republic  of  Panama,  and  such 


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citizens  will  be  given  preference  for  employment  in  all  grades.    Aliens  may  not 
be  employed  in  such  grades  unless 

(a)  they  have  occupied  similar  positions  during  the  construction  of 
the  Canal  for  two  years  or  more,  or 

(b)  in  case  of  emergency,-  in  which  latter  case  they  must  be  replaced 
by  citizens  of  the  United  States  or  Republic  of  Panama  as  early  as  practi- 
cable. 

7.  The  Governor  shall  prescribe  regulations,  when  not  otherwise  fixed  in  this 
order,  setting  forth  the  qualifications  necessary  for  appointment  of  the  various 
classes  of  employees,  including  physical  fitness  for  work  on  the  Isthmus.  The 
age  limit  shall  in  all  cases  be  under  45  years,  but  the  Governor  may  waive  this 
limit  when  in  his  judgmeut  such  action  is  for  the  good  of  the  service. 

S.  All  appointments  shall  be  made  by  the  Governor  of  the  Panama  Canal,  or 
by  his  authority,  except  the  district  judge,  district  attorney,  marshal,  clerk  of 
district  court  and  his  assistant. 

9.  Assignment  to  duty  is  vested  in  the  respective  heads  of  the  departments, 
and  employees  will  be  expected  to  perform  such  duties  as  may  properly  be 
assigned  to  them.  The  Governor  may  discharge  an  employee  at  any  time  for 
cause,  and  terminate  a  provisional  appointment  when  the  exigencies  of  the 
service  so  require. 

10.  The  Government  reserves  the  right  to  pay  in  any  money  the  value  or 
parity  of  which  is  guaranteed  by  the  United  States. 

11.  Employees  whose  salaries  are  fixed  on  a  monthly  or  annual  basis  will 
receive  no  pay  for  overtime  work. 

12.  Employees  above  the  grade  of  laborer,  appointed  with  rates  of  pay  per 
hour  or  per  day,  will  not  be  employed  over  eight  hours  in  any  one  calendar  day, 
except  in  case  of  emergency.  The  time  such  employees  work  over  eight  hours 
in  one  calendar  day,  and  time  worked  on  Sundays  and  regularly  authorized 
holidays,  including  January  1st,  February  22nd,  May  30th,  July  4th,  Labor  Day, 
Thanksgiving  Day,  and  December  25th.  shall  be  considered  overtime  for  which 
time  and  one-half  will  be  allowed.  Such  employees  who  work  on  the  days  prior 
and  subsequent  to  the  holidays  specifically  named  above  will  be  allowed  their 
regular  pay  for  eight  hours  for  such  days,  in  addition  to  pay  for  any  work 
performed. 

13.  An  employee  whose  compensation  while  on  duty  carries  with  it  subsist- 
ence will  not  be  entitled  to  same  or  commutation  thereof  while  on  leave  of 
absence,  and  no  commutation  of  quarters  shall  be  paid. 

TRANSPORTATION. 

14.  Employees  and  dependent  members  of  their  families  will  be  granted  the 
regular  Government  rate  upon  commercial  steamship  lines  with  which  arrange- 
ments for  such  rates  can  be  made.  While  the  United  States  operates  a  steam- 
ship line,  either  directly  or  through  the  Panama  Railroad  Company,  employees 
and  the  dependent  members  of  their  families  will  be  granted  transportation  at 
the  same  rates  and  under  the  same  conditions  as  are  at  present  in  effect.  The 
rates  and  conditions  are  subject  to  change  at  any  time  in  the  discretion  of  the 
Governor. 

15.  After  three  years  service,  employees  who  are  citizens  of  the  United  States 
will  be  entitled  to  free  transportation  for  themselves  only,  on  termination  of 
service,  to  any  port  of  the  United  States,  except  that  when  such  transportation 
costs  the  Government  more  than  $40.00  the  employee  must  pay  the  excess. 

16.  Employees  on  the  gold  roll  will  be  granted  one  complimentary  round-trip 
pass  on  the  Panama  Railroad  each  calendar  mouth.     Mileage  books  for  use  of 


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such  employees  and  dependent  members  of  their  families  or  relatives  tempo- 
rarily residing  with  them,  will  be  furnished  at  one-half  regular  tariff  rates. 

QUARTERS. 

17.  Where  practicable,  such  bachelor  quarters  on  the  Isthmus  as  may  be  avail- 
able from  time  to  time  will  be  assigned  all  employees  desiring  them.  Family 
quarters,  when  available,  will  be  assigned  under  such  rules  as  may  be  prescribed 
by  the  Governor.  A  charge  will  be  made  for  rent,  fuel,  and  electric  current  at 
such  time  and  in  accordance  with  such  regulations  as  the  President  may  here- 
after establish. 

MEDICAL   CARE. 

18.  Employees  injured  will  be  compensated  in  accordance  with  such  regula- 
tions as  are  prescribed  by  law. 

19.  All  employees  in  cases  of  illness  or  injury  will  receive  free  medical  care 
and  attendance  in  the  hospitals,  except  in  cases  of  alcoholism  or  venereal 
disease.  If  medical  attendance  is  furnished  in  quarters,  a  charge  may  be  made 
under  regulations  to  be  prescribed  by  the  Governor.  Employees  will  be  charged 
for  medical  care  and  attendance  furnished  members  of  their  families  at  the 
hospitals  and  at  their  quarters  at  such  rates  and  under  such  regulations  as  may 
be  prescribed  by  the  Governor. 

LEAVE   REGULATIONS. 

20.  All  employees  who  are  citizens  of  the  United  States,  and  aliens  whose 
compensation  is  more  than  .$75.00  per  month  or  40<"  per  hour,  shall  be  entitled 
to  leave  privileges. 

21.  Leave  will  be  divided  into  three  classes,  viz:  (1)  annual  leave,  (2)  cumu- 
lative leave,  and   (3)   travel  leave. 

ANNUAL    LEAVE. 

22.  Twenty-four  days  annual  leave  will  be  allowed  each  employee  for  each 
year  after  entry  into  service  and.  if  not  granted  prior  to  the  close  of  the 
year,  is  forfeited  and  may  not  be  accumulated,  except  that  any  annual  leave 
remaining  to  an  employee's  credit  in  a  year  in  which  he  is  granted  cumulative 
leave  may  be  added  to  the  cumulative  leave  if  taken  within  two  months  after 
the  close  of  his  service  year. 

23.  The  sendee  year  shall  date  from  the  day  on  which  an  employee's  pay  in 
the  permanent  organization  begins. 

24.  Absences  of  one-half  day  or  more,  when  regularly  authorized,  will  be 
charged  against  annual  leave;  also  absences  on  account  of  illness  or  injury, 
upon  the  certificate  of  an  authorized  physician  in  the  service  of  the  Panama 
Canal,  except  that  in  the  following  classes  of  cases  no  payment  shall  be  made 
for  time  lost,  but  the  time  shall  be  charged  against  the  annual  leave : 

(a)  Illness  due  to  the  fault  of  the  employee,  as  venereal  disease  and 
alcoholism. 

(b)  Injury  due  to  the  employee's  wilful  intention  to  bring  about  the 
injury  or  death  of  himself  or  another. 

(c)  Elective  surgical  operations  to  relieve  conditions  existing  prior  to 
service  on  the  Isthmus. 

25.  In  the  case  of  hourly  or  per  diem  employees  annual  leave  on  account  of 
sickness  or  injury  shall  be  based  upon  a  day  of  eight  hours. 

26.  Not  more  than  fourteen  days  annual  leave  may  be  taken  during  the  first 
six  months  of  a  service  year.  In  case  of  illness  or  injury  in  the  first  six  months, 
to  cover  which  no  annual  leave  remains  to  the  employee's  credit,  the  time  lost 


MINUTES    OF    ISTHMIAN    CANAL   COMMISSION.  1859 

will  be  charged  against  the  annual  leave  remaining  for  the  year,  and  payment 
will  be  made  after  completing  ten  months  of  the  service  year.  After  the  entire 
twenty-four  days  annual  leave  has  been  used,  additional  leave  in  that  service 
year  on  account  of  illness  or  injury  will  be  deducted  from  the  cumulative  leave 
for  that  year  and  when  the  cumulative  leave  becomes  due  the  employee  will 
be  paid. 

27.  After  exhausting  both  annual  and  cumulative  leave  for  the  year,  additional 
absence  on  account  of  illness  or  injury  will  be  without  pay,  except  such  com- 
pensation as  may  be  prescribed  by  law  for  employees  receiving  personal  injuries. 

CUMULATIVE    LEAVE. 

28.  Thirty  days  cumulative  leave  will  be  allowed  each  employee  paid  on  a 
monthly  or  annual  basis  for  each  year  of  his  service,  and  twenty  days  to  each 
employee  paid  on  an  hourly  basis.  This  leave  will  be  due  after  completing  ten 
months'  service  each  year  and  may  be  taken  when  the  employee's  service  can 
be  spared.  It  may  be  taken  annually  or  left  to  accumulate  to  the  credit  of 
the  employee,  provided,  however,  that  leave  may  not  be  accumulated  for  more 
than  three  years.  If  it  is  not  desired  to  take  the  entire  leave  accumulated,  the 
leave  earned  for  the  first  year,  or  the  first  and  second  years,  may  be  taken,  pro- 
vided that  no  employee,  except  at  termination  of  service,  may  be  granted  more 
than  ninety  days  leave  with  pay  at  one  time.  Employees  will  be  paid  for 
cumulative  leave  at  the  rate  earned  when  the  leave  became  due  at  the  end  of 
the  tenth  month  of  each  respective  year. 

29.  In  case  an  employee  serves  part  of  a  year  on  the  monthly  or  annual  basis 
and  part  on  the  hourly  basis,  he  will  be  allowed  twenty  days  cumulative  leave, 
except  that  if  he  has  served  eight  months  or  more  on  the  monthly  or  annual 
basis  during  the  year  he  will  be  granted  thirty  days  cumulative  leave. 

TRAVEL  LEAVE. 

30.  Employees  who  travel  to  points  outside  the  tropics,  when  on  cumulative 
leave,  will  be  allowed  seven  days  additional  leave  (or  travel  leave)  with  full 
pay.  Travel  leave  may  be  allowed  approximately  once  a  year  and  is  not  cumu- 
lative. 

31.  Employees  will  be  compensated  for  travel  leave  and  annual  leave  taken 
in  conjunction  with  cumulative  leave  at  the  rate  earned  when  cumulative  leave 
last  became  due. 

32.  After  accumulating  leave  for  three  years,  an  employee  ceases  to  earn 
additional  cumulative  leave  until  he  is  granted  all  or  part  of  the  cumulative 
leave  already  earned,  unless  he  shall  enter  on  cumulative  leave  within  two 
mouths  after  competing  the  third  year,  or  be  ordered  by  the  Governor  to  defer 
taking  leave  for  official  reasons. 

33.  When  an  employee's  services  are  terminated  on  account  of  misconduct  or 
unsatisfactory  service,  any  annual  leave  due  and  travel  leave  will  be  forfeited, 
and  cumulative  leave  will  also  be  forfeited  unless  written  notification  has  been 
given  that  the  employee  has  accumulated  the  leave,  or  the  four  months  period 
within  which  the  employee  may  enter  on  leave  has  passed.  Such  written  notice 
must  be  given  by  employees  as  soon  as  possible  after  cumulative  leave  becomes 
due. 

34.  When  an  employee's  service  is  terminated,  a  cash  payment  in  commuta- 
tion of  leave  will  be  made  to  him  for  the  number  of  days'  cumulative  leave 
due.  plus  the  annual  leave  due.  In  the  event  of  bis  death  his  estate  will  be 
paid  the  sum  due. 

35.  Employees  must  enter  on  cumulative  leave  within  four  months  after  the 
date  when  it  becomes  due.  except  when  accumulated,  or  unless  otherwise  author- 
ized by  the  Governor. 


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36.  Employees  must  report  from  leave  within  one  week  after  the  authorized 
leave  expires  or  forfeit  pay  for  the  leave.  In  case  of  unavoidable  delay,  the 
Governor  will  decide  whether  the  circumstances  warrant  an  exception  to  this 
rule. 

37.  No  restrictions  are  placed  on  the  localities  where  leave  may  be  spent. 

38.  Any  employee  transferred  from  the  present  force  to  the  permanent  oper- 
ating force  will  be  paid  at  the  time  of  transfer,  in  addition  to  his  regular  com- 
pensation, the  amount  he  would  have  received  in  payment  for  leave  had  he  been 
separated  from  the  service  at  the  time  of  transfer. 

39.  Leave  may  be  taken  only  at  the  convenience  of  heads  of  departments,  who 
may  direct  an  employee  to  accumulate  his  leave  if  necessary  for  the  conduct  of 
the  work. 

40.  Leave  without  pay  may  be  granted  by  the  Governor  to  all  employees, 
including  laborers,  for  such  period  as  may  be  prescribed  by  him. 

OFFICE   HOURS   AND    HOURS   OF   LABOR. 

41.  Office  hours  and  hours  of  labor  will  be  fixed  by  the  Governor  within  the 
limits  prescribed  by  law. 

42.  This  order  shall  take  effect  from  and  after  the  1st  day  of  April,  1914. 

Woodrow  Wilson 
The  White  House, 

2  February,  1914. 

[No.  1888.] 


Executive  Order. 

to  establish  a  washington  office  of  the  panama  canal,  to  provide  tempo- 
rarily for  the  organization,  officials  and  employes  thereof,  and  to 
continue  in  force  for  the  panama  canal  rules,  regulations,  and  executive 
orders  which  may  have  been  made  for  the  isthmian  canal  commission. 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  vested  in  me  it  is  hereby  ordered : 

Section  I.  That  an  office  of  The  Panama  Canal  is  established  in  the  City  of 
Washington  in  the  District  of  Columbia. 

Section  II.  That  the  Washington  Office  of  The  Panama  Canal  shall  be  the 
office  of  general  records  in  the  United  States,  and  shall  succeed  to  the  custody, 
care  and  preservation  of  all  the  records  and  files  of  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commis- 
sion, to  be  retained  and  preserved  in  the  United  States  on  and  after  April  1, 
1914,  and  shall  also  succeed  to  and  become  chargeable  with  all  property  of  every 
kind  and  character  purchased  for  the  Washington  Office  of  the  Isthmian  Canal 
Commission,  which  is  on  hand  April  1,  1914. 

Section  III.  That  the  Washington  Office  of  The  Panama  Canal  sh-ill  be  the 
headquarters  and  the  principal  office  of  the  Purchasing  Department  of  The 
Panama  Canal.  The  head  of  the  Purchasing  Department  of  The  Panama  Canal, 
under  the  direction  of  the  Governor,  shall  have  administrative  control  of  the 
Washington  Office  of  The  Panama  Canal.  He  shall  be  subject  to  orders  and 
supervision  of  the  Chief  of  Engineers  of  the  U.  S.  Army  to  such  extent  as  may 
be  directed  by  the  Secretary  of  War.  He  shall  be  General  Purchasing  Officer 
for  the  Panama  Canal,  and  shall  also  act  as  the  Chief  of  the  Washington  Office 
of  The  Panama  Canal. 

Section  IV.  That  until  further  ordered,  the  Washington  Office  of  The  Panama 
Canal  shall  have  the  same  organization  as  to  offices  and  departments  (except 
the  Office  of  the  Assistant  Examiner  of  Accounts  and  the  Disbursing  Office)  as 


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the  Washington  Office  of  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission  shall  have  on  March 
31,  «1914.  The  number,  class  and  salaries  of  officials  and  employes  in  each  of 
the  offices  and  departments,  except  as  hereinafter  provided,  shall  be  the  same 
as  those  authorized  for  the  Washington  Office  of  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commis- 
sion on  March  31,  1914,  and  any  change  in  the  salary  of  any  position,  or  in  the 
number  of  positions  in  any  office  or  department,  shall  be  made  only  as  now- 
provided  by  law.  The  officers  and  employees,  except  as  hereinafter  provided, 
shall  perform  the  same  class  of  duties  that  they  may  be  assigned  to  on  March 
31,  1914. 

Section  V.  That  the  Assistant  Auditor  provided  for  in  Executive  Order  No. 
18S5,  dated  January  27,  1914,  shall  be  appointed  April  1.  1914.  His  salary  shall 
be  fixed  by  the  Governor.  He  shall  perform  such  duties  of  the  Accounting 
Department  to  be  performed  in  the  United  States,  as  may  be  assigned  to  him 
by  the  Auditor,  and  also  such  other  duties  of  a  general  nature  as  may  be 
assigned  to  him  by  the  Chief  of  the  Washington  Office  of  The  Panama  Canal. 

On  and  after  April  1,  1914,  there  shall  be  transferred  to  the  Assistant 
Auditor,  and  he  shall  be  charged  with  the  custody,  care  and  preservation  of, 
all  records  and  property  of  the  Disbursing  Officer,  and  of  the  Assistant  Exam- 
iner of  Accounts  of  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission,  with  wbich  those  officers 
shall  be  charged  on  March  31,  1914. 

The  Chief  of  the  Washington  Office  may,  however,  transfer  to  and  place  in  the 
custody  of  the  Disbursing  Clerk,  hereinafter  provided  for.  such  of  the  property 
and  records  above  described,  as  he  may  deem  to  be  essential  to  enable  the  Dis- 
bursing Clerk  to  properly  perform  his  duties  under  this  order,  but  the  Disburs- 
ing Clerk  shall  not  be  permitted,  without  specific  authority  from  the  Chief  of 
Office,  to  keep  a  separate  set  of  records  and  files.  He  shall  be  required  to  rely 
upon,  and  consult  when  necessary,  the  records  and  files  in  the  office  of  the 
Assistant  Auditor,  in  verifying  the  legality  of  claims  and  accounts  submitted 
to  him  for  payment,  or  to  verify  the  details  of  any  collection  for  which  he  is 
required  to  account.  Disbursements  will  be  made  by  the  Disbursing  Clerk  only 
after  examination  of  the  claim  or  account  in  the  office  of  the  Assistant  Auditor. 

Such  of  the  officers  and  employees  employed  in  the  office  of  the  Assistant 
Examiner  of  Accounts  and  the  Disbursing  Office  of  the  Isthmian  Canal  Com- 
mission on  March  31,  1914.  as  the  Governor  determines  to  retain,  shall  be  trans- 
ferred to  and  employed  in  the  Accounting  Department  in  the  United  States,  and 
their  salaries  fixed  at  such  amounts  as  the  Governor  deems  just  and  reasonable. 

There  shall  be  a  Disbursing  Clerk  for  that  part  of  the  Accounting  Department 
in  the  United  States,  who  shall  perform  similar  duties  to  those  that  are  required 
to  be  performed  by  the  Collector  and  Paymaster  on  the  Isthmus,  in  so  far  as 
there  are  such  duties  to  be  performed  in  the  United  States,  and  shall  be  subject 
to  the  same  supervision  by  the  Assistant  Auditor,  as  the  Collector  and  Pay- 
master on  the  Isthmus  are  by  the  Auditor.  He  shall  give  bond  in  such  amount 
as  may  be  fixed  by  the  Governor,  or  by  his  authority. 

Such  of  tbe  officers  and  employes  as  are  transferred  to  and  employed  in  the 
Accounting  Department  in  the  United  States,  shall  be  distributed  between  the 
office  of  the  Assistant  Auditor  and  that  of  the  Disbursing  Clerk,  respectively,  as 
the  needs  of  the  service  require.  They  shall  perform  such  duties  as  may  be 
assigned  to  them  by  proper  authority.  They  shall  be  subject  to  similar  finan- 
cial responsibilities,  and  to  the  same  general  rules  and  regulations  that  have 
been  prescribed  for  like  officers  and  employes  employed  in  the  Accounting 
Department  on  the  Isthmus. 

It  is  the  purpose  of  this  order,  and  it  shall  be  so  construed,  as  to  require  the 
Assistant  Auditor  of  The  Panama  Canal  to  examine  all  claims  and  accounts 
before  their  payment  by  the  Disbursing  Clerk :  to  carry  on  all  general  corre- 


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aponden.ce  in  relation  to  claims  and  accounts  required  to  be  conducted  by  the 
Accounting  Department  in  the  United  States;  to  prepare  all  vouchers  and  certify 
to  the  validity  of  all  claims  and  accounts  before  they  are  submitted  to  the 
Disbursing  Clerk  for  payment;  to  furnish  to.  the  Disbursing  Clerk  all  necessary 
data  to  enable  that  officer  to  make  reply  to  any  exceptions  that  may  be  taken 
to  his  account  by  the  Auditor  for  the  War  Department;  to  keep  all  general 
records  required  to  be  kept  in  the  Accounting  Department  in  .the  United  States; 
to  make  all  reports  as  to  statistical  data  required  to  be  sent  to  the  Auditor  on 
the  Isthmus;  to  give  an  administrative  examination  to  all  accounts  of  the 
Disbursing  Clerk  before  they  are  transmitted  to  the  Auditor;  to  make  an 
administrative  examination  of  all  claims  which  are  to  be  submitted  to  the 
Auditor  for  direct  settlement ;  to  keep  a  complete  record  of  all  collections  to  be 
made  and  all  moneys  received  by  the  Disbursing  Clerk;  to  certify  to  the  cor- 
rectness of  the  Disbursing  Clerk's  accounts  for  collections;  to  see  that  bills 
collectible  are  issued  and  collections  made  in  all  proper  cases;  to  have  charge 
of  all  general  files  wbich  are  required  to  be  kept  by  the  Accounting  Department 
in  the  United  States;  and  to  perform  such  other  duties  as  may  be  assigned  to 
him  by  the  Auditor,  or  the  Chief  of  the  Washington  Office. 

Section  VI.  That  any  person  holding  appointment  or  employment  in  or 
under  Washington  Office  of  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission  on  March  31,  1914, 
shall  be  eligible  for  appointment  to,  or  employment  in  a  like  position  in  or 
under  the  Washington  Office  of  The  Panama  Canal,  created  by  this  order,  and 
all  except  those  employed  in  the  Accounting  Department,  will  be  considered 
to  be  transferred  and  appointed  to  such  like  position  in  or  under  the  Washing- 
ton Office  of  The  Panama  Canal,  as  of  April  1,  1914,  without  further  order  or 
appointment.  The  oath  of  office  shall  be  taken  by  all  officials  and  employes  of 
the  Washington  Office. 

Section  VII.  This  order  shall  remain  in  force  as  a  provisional  order  only, 
for  the  establishment  of  the  Washington  Office  of  The  Panama  Canal,  until  an 
order  for  the  permanent  organization  of  such  office  shall  have  been  made 

Section  VIII.  All  rules,  regulations  and  executive  orders,  not  inconsistent 
with  the  provisions  of  this  order  and  the  Executive  Orders  of  January  27.  and 
February  2,  1914,  heretofore  made  for  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission,  and  ap- 
plicable to  conditions  that  will  exist  under  these  orders,  shall  be  and  are  hereby 
continued  in  full  force  and  effect,  as  rules,  regulations,  and  executive  orders 
for  the  government  of  officers  and  employes  of  The  Panama  Canal  and  the 
transaction  of  the  business  of  The  Panama  Canal. 

Woodrow   Wilson 

The  White  House, 

2  March,  191),. 

[No.  1897.] 


2.  The  following  resolution,  adopted  by  letter  ballot  of  November 
1,  1913,  authorizing  the  Chief  Sanitary  Officer  to  furnish  peg  legs  in 
eases  not  covered  by  the  regulations  governing  the  treatment  of  per- 
sons in  the  hospitals,  when  such  action  is  in  the  interest  of  the  Com- 
mission, was  f ormalty  confirmed : 

Resolved,  That  section  4  of  sub-division  A  of  the  regulations  gov- 
erning the  treatment  of  persons  in  the  hospitals  of  the  Isthmian 
Canal  Commission,  adopted  at  the  124th  meeting  of  the  Commission, 
is  amended  to  read  as  follows: 


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Any  employee  furnished  any  special  appliance  or  apparatus,  such 
as  spectacles,  etc.,  shall  be  required  to  pay  the  cost  thereof,  plus  ten 
per  cent,  unless  such  special  appliance  or  apparatus  is  made  necessary 
by  injuries  sustained  or  illness  contracted  in  the  performance  of  his 
duty ; 

Provided,  hoicerer.  That  the  Chief  Sanitary  Officer  is  authorized 
to  furnish  peg  legs  at  the  expense  of  the  Commission  to  either  an 
employee  or  non-employee  in  any  case  in  which  he  considers  that  the 
interests  of  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission  or  the  Canal  Zone  Gov- 
ernment will  be  benefited  thereby. 

3.  By  letter  ballot  of  September  15,  1913,  the  Commission  adopted 
the  following  "  Rules  and  Regulations  Prohibiting  the  Passage  or 
Presence  of  Floating  Craft,  except  those  belonging  to  the  United 
States  or  the  Panama  Railroad,  in  that  section  of  the  Panama  Canal 
known  as  Culebra  Cut,  between  Gamboa  and  Pedro  Miguel  Lock," 
and  the  same  were  formally  confirmed : 

By  authority  of  the  President  of  the  United  States,  as  expressed  in  Executive 
Order  of  July  25,  1910,  the  following  rules  ;ind  regulations  are  adopted  by  the 
Isthmian  Canal  Commission  for  the  purpose  of  facilitating  work  of  excavation 
and  canal  construction,  and  the  same  shall  have  the  force  and  effect  of  law 
when  approved  by  the  Secretary  of  War  : 

Section  1.  Without  special  permission  in  writing,  signed  by  the  Chairman  of 
the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission,  no  owner,  master  or  operator  of  any  floating 
craft  of  any  kind  or  character  whatsoever,  except  such  as  may  belong  to  or  be 
chartered  by  the  United  States  or  the  Panama  Railroad  Company,  shall  cause 
or  permit  such  craft  to  enter,  navigate  or  be  present  within  that  portion  of  the 
Panama  Canal  known  as  the  Culebra  Cut,  which  lies  between  Gamboa  and 
Pedro  Miguel  lock. 

Section  2.  For  the  better  enforcement  of  these  rules  and  regulations  the 
officers  and  agents  of  the  United  States  and  the  assistant  engineers,  superin- 
tendents and  supervisors  employed  under  them  by  the  authority  of  the  Isth- 
mian Canal-  Commission,  shall  have  power  and  authority  to  arrest  and  take 
into  custody,  with  or  without  process,  any  person  or  persons  who  may  commit 
any  of  the  acts  or  offenses  prohibited  by  section  l.of  these  rules  aud  regulations 
or  who  may  violate  any  of  the  provisions  of  the  same. 

Section  3.  As  ordered  by  the  President  of  the  United  States,  any  person  vio- 
lating the  provisions  of  these  rules  and  regulations  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misde- 
meanor, and  on  conviction  thereof  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  not  to  exceed 
five  hundred  dollars  ($500.00),  or  by  imprisonment  in  the  district  jail  for  not 
more  than  six  months,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment,  in  the  discretion 
of  the  Court. 

4.  The  Chairman  presented  statements  showing  the  appointments, 
promotions,  and  other  changes  in  personnel  on  the  Isthmus: 

(a)  In  the  Department  of  Construction  and  Engineering  for  the  weeks  ending 
April  5,  12,  19  and  20:  May  3.  10.  17,  24  and  31  :  June  7.  14.  21.  and  2S  ;  July 
5,  12*,  19  and  26;  August  2.  0,  16,  23  and  30:  September  6.  18,  20  and  27;  October 
4,  11,  18  and  25:  November  1,  8,  15,  22  and  29;  December  6,  13.  20  and  27.  1913; 
January  3,  10,  17,  24  and  31;  February  7.  14,  21,  and  2S  ;  March  7.  14  and  21. 
1914. 

(I))  In  the  Department  of  Civil  Administration  for  the  weeks  ending  April  5, 
12,  19  and  26;  May  3.  10.  17,  24  and  31 ;  June  7.  14.  21  and  2S;  July  5,  12,  19  and 


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26 ;  August  2,  9,  16,  23  and  30 ;  September  6,  13,  20  and  27 ;  October  4,  11,  18 
and  25;  November  1,  S,  15.  22  and  29;  December  6,  13,  20  and  27,  1913;  January 

3.  10,  17,  24  and  31 ;  February  7,  14,  21  and  28 ;  March  7,  14  and  21,  1914. 

(c)  In  the  Department  of  Sanitation  for  the  weeks  ending  April  5,  12,  19  and 
26:  May  3,  10,  17.  24  and  31;  June  7,  14,  21  and  28;  July  5,  12,  19  and  26; 
August  2,  9,  16,  23  and  30 ;  September  6,  13,  20  and  27 ;  October  4,  11,  18  and  25 ; 
November  1,  8.  15,  22  and  29 ;  December  6,  13,  20  and  27.  1913 ;  January  3,  10, 
17.  24  and  31;  February  7,  14,  21  and  28;  March  7,  14  and  21,  1914. 

(d)  In  the  Subsistence  Department  for  the  weeks  ending  April  5,  12,  19  and 
26 ;  May  3,  17,  24  and  31 ;  June  7,  14,  21  and  28 ;  July  5,  19  and  26 ;  August  2,  9, 

16,  23  and  30 ;  September  6,  13,  20  and  27 ;  October  4,  11  and  25 ;  November  15, 
22  and  29 ;  December  6,  13  and  20,  1913 ;  January  3,  10,  17,  24  and  31 ;  February 
7,  14,  21  and  28 ;  March  7,  14  and  21,  1914. 

(e)  In  the  Quartermaster's  Department  for  the  weeks  ending  April  5,  12,  19 
and  26 ;  May  3,  10,  17,  24  and  31 ;  June  7,  14,  21  and  28 ;  July  5,  12,  19  and  26 ; 
August  2,  9,  16,  23  and  30 ;  September  6, 13,  20  and  27 ;  October  4,  11,  18  and  25 ; 
November  1,  8,  15,  22  and  29 ;  December  6,  13,  20  and  27,  1913 ;  January  3,  10, 

17.  24  and  31;  February  7,  14,  21  and  28;  March  7,  14  and  21,  1914. 

(/)  In  the  Department  of  Law  for  the  weeks  ending  April  5,  12  and  19;  May 
10,  17,  24  and  31 ;  June  14  and  28 ;  July  26 ;  August  2  and  16 ;  September  6,  20 
and  27 ;  October  IS ;  December  6  and  13,  1913 ;  January  31 ;  February  7,  1914. 

(g)  In  the  Department  of  Examination  of  Accounts  for  the  weeks  ending 
April  5,  12,  19  and  26 ;  May  3,  10,  17,  24  and  31 ;  June  7,  14,  21  and  28 ;  July 

5,  12,  19  and  26;  August  2,  9.  16,  23  and  30;  September  6,  13,  20  and  27;  October 

4,  11,  18  and  25 ;  November  1,  8,  15,  22  and  29 ;  December  6,  13,  20  and  27,  1913 ; 
January  10,  17  and  24;  February  7,  14,  21  and  28;  March  7,  14  and  21,  1914. 

(h)  In  the  Department  of  Disbursements  for  the  weeks  ending  April  12  and 
19 ;  May  3,  10,  17  and  24 ;  June  7,  14  and  21 ;  August  2,  9,  16  and  23 ;  September 

6,  13,  20  and  27 ;  October  4  and  25 ;  November  1,  15  and  22,  1913 ;  January  3,  10 
and  17,  1914. 

(/)  In  the  Panama  Railroad  Commissary  Department  for  the  weeks  ending 
April  5,  12,  19  and  26 ;  May  3.  10,  17,  24  and  31 ;  June  7,  14,  21  and  28 ;  July  5. 
12,  19  and  26 ;  August  2.  9.  16,  23  and  30 ;  September  6,  13,  20  and  27 ;  October 

4,  11,  18  and  25 ;  November  1,  8,  15,  22  and  29 ;  December  6,  13,  20  and  27,  1913 ; 
January  3,  10,  17.  24  and  31;  February  7.  14,  21  and  2S;  March  7,  14  and  21. 
1914. 

(;')  In  the  Quartermaster's  Department,  Balboa  Agency,  for  the  weeks  end- 
ing April  5,  12.  19  and  26;  May  3,  10,  17,  24  and  31;  June  7,  14,  21  and  2S;  July 

5,  12,  19  and  26 ;  August  16,  1913. 

All  of  which  were  ratified  and  approved. 

5.  The  Chairman  presented  statements  covering  changes  in  the 
status  of  employees  on  duty  in  the  United  States  for  the  periods 
from  January  1.  1913,  to  June  30,  1913,  inclusive,  and  from  July  1, 

1913,  to  December  31,  1913,  inclusive,  all  of  which  were  ratified  and 
confirmed. 

6.  The  following  amendment  providing  for  the  licensing  of 
chauffeurs  for  automobiles,  adopted  by  letter  ballot  of  January  26, 

1914,  was  formally  confirmed : 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Isthmian  Canal  Co?mnission,  That  Section  8  of 
the  ordinance  adopted  by  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission  at  its  IGOth 
meeting  held  on  April  15,  1911,  and  approved  by  the  Secretary  of 


MINUTES   OF  ISTHMIAN   CANAL   COMMISSION.  1865 

War  on  April  26,  1911,  providing  for  the  licensing  of  chauffeurs  for 
automobiles,  be  and  the  same  hereby  is  amended  to  read  as  follows : 

The  Head  of  the  Department  of  Civil  Administration  is 

authorized  to  revoke  for  cause  any  license  issued  under  the 

authority  of  this  ordinance. 

7.  The  following  resolution,  adopted  by  letter  ballot,  authorizing 
W.  R.  McCann,  supervisor,  First  Division,  to  accumulate  19  days 
leave  with  pay,  spent  by  him  on  official  business  during  the  42  days 
leave  of  absence  with  pay  granted  him  effective  July  10,  1913,  was 
formally  confirmed : 

Resolved,  That  19  days  of  the  time  spent  by  Supervisor  W.  R. 
McCann,  between  July  27  and  September  1,  1913,  on  duty  for  the 
Isthmian  Canal  Commission,  which  period  of  19  days  was  lost  from 
his  duly  granted  leave  of  absence  in  the  United  States,  by  reason  of 
orders  directing  him  to  perform  duty  during  his  leave  of  absence,  and 
to  return  to  the  Isthmus  within  a  certain  time,  may  be  accumulated 
and  granted  in  any  future  leave  of  absence  which  may  become  due 
him. 

8.  The  following  resolution,  adopted  by  letter  ballot,  authorizing 
Clinton  N.  McPherson.  conductor,  Second  Division,  to  enter  January 
30,  1914,  upon  42  clays'  leave  of  absence  with  pay,  was  formally 
confirmed : 

Resolved,  That  Clinton  N.  McPherson,  conductor,  Second  Division, 
be  granted  42  days'  leave  of  absence  with  pay,  effective  January  30, 
1914,  which  ordinarily  would  not  be  due  until  February  18,  1914. 

9.  Upon  motion  it  was — 

Resolved,  That  the  parent  or  guardian  of  any  pupil  attending  a 
Canal  Zone  school  who  has  been  guilty  of  intentionally,  willfully,  or 
maliciously  damaging  or  destroying  any  book  or  books,  supplies,  or 
equipment  loaned  by  the  Government  of  the  Canal  Zone  for  such 
pupil's  use,  shall  be  required  to  reimburse  the  Government  of  the 
Canal  Zone  for  the  appraised  value  of  said  book  or  books,  supplies, 
or  equipment ;  and  in  the  event  of  failure  on  the  part  of  such  parent 
or  guardian  to  reimburse  the  Government  of  the  Canal  Zone  when 
called  upon  to  do  so  by  proper  authority,  the  Examiner  of  Accounts 
may  be  directed,  with  approval  of  the  Chairman,  to  deduct  from  the 
wages  of  such  parent  or  guardian  an  amount  equal  to  the  appraised 
value  of  the  book  or  books,  supplies,  or  equipment  damaged  or 
destroyed;  or,  in  the  case  of  a  child  of  a  nonemployee,  the  privilege 
of  attending  a  Canal  Zone  school  may  be  temporarily  denied  pending 
settlement  for  the  property  damaged  or  destroyed. 

10.  Upon  motion  it  was — 

Resolved,  That  no  service  rendered  after  December  31,  1914,  shall 
be  counted  in  rendering  an  employee  eligible  for  a  canal  medal  or  bar. 

11.  The  Chairman  presented  the  following  report  from  the  com- 
mittee appointed  in  pursuance  of  the  resolution  adopted  at  the  163rd 


J866  minutes  or  ISTHMIAN  canal  commission. 

meeting  to  investigate  and  recommend  plans  for  the  maintenance  of 
the  Panama  Canal : 

The  Committee  appointed  by  you  under  date  of  April  26,  1913,  in  pursuance  of 
the  following  resolution  passed  by  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission  at  its  163rd 
meeting — 

•'  Re-sol  red.  That  the  Chairman  appoint  a  committee  of  four  members  of  the 
Commission  to  investigate  and  recommend  to  the  Commission  plans  for  the 
maintenance  of  the  Panama   Canal" 

submits  the  following  as  a  proposed  plan  for  such  maintenance: 
This  Committee  was  originally  constituted  as  follows : 
Lt.  Col.  D.  D.  Gaillard.  Chairman. 
Lt.  Col.  Wm.  L.  Sibert, 
Colonel  W.  C.  Gorgas, 
Mr.  Maurice  H.  Thatcher. 

On  August  26,  1913,  Col.  II.   F.  Hodges  was  appointed  a   member  of 
the  Committee.    Mr.    M.    H.    Thatcher    having    resigned    from    the 
Isthmian  Canal  Commission. 
The  Committee  held  its  first  meeting  at  Empire  on  May  5.  1913,  at  which 
meeting  it  was  decided  to  call  upon  certain  employees  of  the  Commission  for 
suggestions  as  to  the  organization  of  specified  units  that  it  was  then  thought 
would  be  comprised  in  a  maintenance  organization.    All  information  on  file  in 
your  office  concerning  the  question  under  consideration  was  also  asked  for. 
Data  obtained  as  stated  above  are  enclosures  to  this  report. 
The  scope  of  the  report  of  the  Committee  depends  upon  the  interpretation 
of  the  word  "  maintenance."   Were  the  canal,  after  completion,  to  remain  unused, 
it  would  not  be  difficult  to  outline  an  organization  and  make  plans  solely  for 
maintaining  it  in  readiness  for  operation,  but  such  a  condition  is  not  to  be  con- 
ceived as  possible.     Since  the  canal  is  to  be  operated  after  completion,  to  pro- 
vide an  organization  for  its  maintenance  separate  and  distinct  from  that  re- 
quired for  its  operation  is,  in  the  opinion  of  the  Committee,  impracticable  in 
most  departments.     Certain  important  features  of  the  work,  such  as  dredging, 
the  repair  of  buildings,  roads,  etc..  assume,  in  great  part  if  not  entirely,  the 
character  of  maintenance.     In  the  case  of  certain  other  important  features  of 
the  work,  however,  such  as  the  locks,  the  railroad,  the  shops,  the  hospitals,  etc., 
the  maintenance  is  simply  incidental  to  the  operation,  and  is  to  be  performed 
to  a  large  extent  by  the  operating  force. 

The  Committee  has  found  it  impossible  to  separate  the  functions  of  operation 
and  maintenance  sufficiently  to  submit  a  practical  plan  for  the  latter  which 
shall  be  independent  of  the  former.  In  the  preparation  of  its  plan  for  main- 
tenance it  has  therefore  held  in  view,  first,  the  outline  of  an  organization  which 
shall  perform  all  the  duties  specified  in  the  Panama  Canal  Act  of  August  24. 
1912.  and.  second,  the  creation  or  retention  from  construction  period  of  such 
physical  appliances  as  will  be  required  for  the  use  of  the  canal  after  completion. 
In  preparing  an  organization  for  the  duties  as  stated  above,  there  are  certain 
phases  of  the  work  which  might  be  performed  in  radically  different  ways.  The 
most  prominent  of  these  items  are  the  hospitals,  the  shops,  and  the  supply  de- 
partment, as  they  relate  to  service  for  or  sale  to  outside  parties. 

The  Committee  is  of  the  opinion  that  the  canal  management  should  provide 
a  hospital  or  hospitals  where  the  canal  employees  can  secure  modern  medical 
and  surgical  aid.  In  addition  to  hospital  facilities  for  the  canal  force  proper, 
such  facilities  will  be  necessary  for  a  military  force  of  probably  eight  or  ten 
thousand  men,  and  many  patients  not  in  the  government  service  will  need 
similar  care. 


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.  A  material  sanitary  advantage  would  result  from  concentrating  all  hospital 
facilities  in  the  Canal  Zone  under  one  head.  The  health  officer  could  thus  be 
informed  at  the  earliest  possible  moment  of  the  presence  in  the  Zone  of  con- 
tagious diseases.  Such  concentration  would  also  result  in  economy  to  the 
branches  of  the  government  service  interested.  This  concentration  would  involve 
closing  Santo  Toinas  Hospital  in  Panama.  This  could  probably  be  accomplished 
by  agreement  with  the  Republic  of  Panama. 

Under  the  present  law  there  will  be  in  the  Canal  Zone  two  independent  or- 
ganizations— that  under  the  civil  government  and  that  under  the  commanding 
officer  of  the  troops.  Both  of  these  organizations  report  to  the  Secretary  of 
War  as  their  immediate  superior.  Ten  thousand  troops  will  probably  require 
300  beds  in  the  hospital ;  three  thousand  canal  employees  will  require  about  90 
beds;  there  will  probably  be  required  for  several  years  about  100  beds  for 
charity  patients,  chargeable  to  the  civil  government ;  and  the  question  naturally 
arises  as  to  whether  this  hospital  should  be  administered  by  the  military  or  by 
the  civil  authorities.  If  the  hospitals  were  turned  over  to  the  military  authori- 
ties and  canal  employees  were  charged  for  service  received  in  the  hospitals,  a 
material  economy  would  result  to  the  canal  government.  The  great  economy  of 
army  administration  would  be  that  the  army  personnel  of  physicians  and 
hospital  corps  men  belonging  to  the  troops  stationed  in  the  Canal  Zone  could 
be  placed  in  the  hospitals  and  by  that  much  decrease  the  expense  of  administra- 
tion. 

Attention  is  invited  to  memorandum  from  the  Chief  Sanitary  Officer,  attached 
to  this  report.  It  is  the  opinion  of  the  Commitee  that  it  would  be  advantageous 
to  the  Government  for  the  military  authorities  to  operate  the  hospital,  or  hos- 
pitals, and  that  canal  employees  should  pay  for  hospital  service. 

An  organization  is  submitted  which  shows  the  pay  roll  cost  of  operating  a 
hospital  of  300  beds  and  doing  the  necessary  sanitary  and  quarantine  work  on 
the  Isthmus.  Such  a  hospital  will  provide  for  the  canal  employees,  their 
families,  and  any  charity  patients  that  the  Canal  Zone  Government  may  have  to 
care  for.  The  Chief  Sanitary  Officer  estimates  that  it  will  require  a  general 
hospital  of  1,600  beds  to  care  for  the  soldiers,  canal  employees,  charity  patients, 
patients  at  present  cared  for  at  Santo  Tomas  hospital,  the  insane,  and  outside 
pay  patients. 

It  is  estimated  that  the  income  from  the  general  hospital  would  be  about 
$350,000  per  year,  and  its  total  operating  expense  about  $500,000,  leaving  a  net 
expenditure  of  $150,000.  If  this  hospital  were  turned  over  to  the  military 
authorities,  and  the  canal  government  paid  one  dollar  per  day  for  each  of  its 
100  charity  patients,  the  cost  would  be  only  $36,500  to  the  canal  government. 

The  organization  for  the  shops  will  depend,  of  necessity,  not  alone  upon  the 
work  required  in  the  operation  and  maintenance  of  the  canal  itself,  but  also 
upon  the  work  done  for  the  Navy  Department  and  for  commercial  interests 
using  the  canal.  The  plant  which  it  is  proposed  to  provide  for  the  shops  and 
dry  dock  is  evidently  larger  than  would  be  needed  for  the  uses  of  the  canal 
itself,  even  including  the  needs  of  the  vessels  passing  through  it.  The  excess 
has  been  provided  to  meet  the  needs  of  the  Navy  in  stress  of  war.  The  Com- 
mittee believes  that  the  expense  of  maintaining  and  operating  that  portion  of 
the  plant  which  is  provided  to  meet  such  Naval  needs  should  not  properly  be 
charged  to  the  cost  of  maintaining  the  canal  itself.  It  submits  with  its  report, 
therefore,  an  organization  for  performing  only  the  work  necessary  in  maintain- 
ing the  canal  and  providing  for  the  needs  of  the  vessels  using  it.  This  force 
could  easily  be  increased  to  meet  any  reasonable  demand  for  repair  to  either 
additional  merchant  ships  or  to  naval  vessels  in  time  of  war.  All  of  the  work 
done  by  this  increased  force,  as  well  as  that  performed  by  the  organization 


1868  MINUTES    OF    ISTHMIAN    CANAL    COMMISSION. 

submitted,  for  vessels  using  the  canal,  would  be  paid  for  by  the  vessels  for 
wbich  the  work  is  done. 

Tbe  organization  proposed  for  operating  the  locks  provides  for  such  operation 
for  twelve  hours  daily. 

The  organization  proposed  for  handling  the  receipts  and  disbursement  of 
moneys  provides  independent  organizations  for  collecting,  for  disbursing  and  for 
auditing.  It  is  assumed  that  only  an  administrative  audit  will  be  made  in  the 
Canal  Zone.  The  salary  and  duties  of  the  Chief  Auditing  Clerk  and  his  force 
are  based  on  a  similar  organization  in  the  office  of  the  Cbief  of  Engineers, 
U.  S.  Army. 

A  public  depository  at  one  end  of  the  canal,  with  a  branch  at  the  other,  would 
greatly  facilitate  collecting  and  disbursing  funds. 

In  its  attempt  to  state  the  salaries  appropriate  to  the  different  positions  pro- 
vided for  in  the  plan  for  organization,  the  Committee  has  endeavored  to  remain 
within  the  limit  of  25  per  cent  in  excess  of  the  amount  paid  for  similar  services 
in  the  United  States,  this  limit  being  that  set  in  the  Act  of  August  24,  1912, 
to  provide  for  the  operation,  maintenance,  protection,  etc.,  of  the  Panama  Canal. 
The  salary  of  the  Governor  of  the  Canal  Zone  is  fixed  by  that  law  at  $10,000 
a  year.  The  Committee  has,  therefore,  placed  the  salaries  of  the  Chief  Engineer 
and  of  the  Chief  Sanitary  Officer  at  $7,500  a  year.  In  the  case  of  the  last  two 
officials,  the  Committee  believes  that  no  fixed  standard  of  comparison  can  be 
found  in  the  United  States  by  which  their  compensation  can  be  measured.  It 
believes  that  the  sum  fixed  is  less  than  that  which  the  performance  of  similar 
responsible  duties  in  the  United  States  would  command,  but  feels  that  there 
should  be  a  reasonable  difference  between  the  compensation  of  these  officials 
and  the  compensation  of  the  Governor.  It  believes,  however,  that  in  the  case 
of  these  three  officials,  who  will  undoubtedly  be  required  to  do  a  large  amount 
of  official  entertaining,  suitable  furnished  quarters,  heat  and  light  should  be 
provided  in  addition  to  the  salaries  named.  In  all  other  cases,  the  Committee 
is  of  the  opinion  that  officials  and  employees  should  pay  rent  for  their  houses, 
and  should  receive  no  allowances  in  the  way  of  heat  and  light,  or  other  per- 
quisites. The  charge  for  quarters  should  be  small,  but  enough  to  cover  repairs 
at  least.  The  Committee  is  further  of  the  opinion  that  employees  occupying 
positions  on  the  gold  roll  should  receive  the  same  privileges  which  they  now 
enjoy  in  the  matter  of  leave  of  absence  and  of  sick  leave  with  pay. 

In  the  opinion  of  the  Committee  all  needed  fixed  accessories  are  provided  in 
plans  that  will  be  consummated  during  the  construction  period. 

While  the  proposed  organization  contemplates  the  operation  during  the  main- 
tenance period  of  one  sea-going  suction  dredge,  one  pipe  line  dredge,  two  15- 
yard  dipper  dredges,  and  the  "  Corozal  ",  it  is  not  thought  that  a  dredging  fleet 
of  this  size  will  be  necessary  for  any  great  length  of  time  after  the  completion 
of  the  canal,  and  it  is  believed  that  the  estimate  for  this  organization,  together 
with  that  for  the  permanent  shops,  will  cover  the  cost  of  any  organization 
necessary  for  dry  excavation. 

In  submitting  the  present  report  the  Committee  feels  that  one  important  phase 
of  the  work  of  maintenance  and  operation  has  not  been  completely  covered : 
namely — the  material  and  equipment  which  should  be  retained  after  the  con- 
struction period,  and  the  points  at  which  the  different  units  should  be  located. 

Owing  to  necessary  changes  in  its  personnel  since  its  original  appointment,  the 
Committee  has  not  been  able  to  work  to  advantage  in  all  matters  of  detail. 
Nevertheless,  on  account  of  the  immediate  departure  of  two  of  its  members,  it 
feels  that  a  report  should  be  laid  before  the  Commission  without  the  further 
extended  delay  which  would  be  necessary  to  a  continuance  of  its  studies. 

The  Committee  therefore  submits  its  views  as  thus  far  formulated,  leaving  the 
matter  of  equipment  and  material  for  further  consideration  by  the  officials 


MINUTES   OF   ISTHMIAN   CANAL  COMMISSION.  1869 

immediately  concerned  in  the  work.     It  is  estimated  that  the  cost  of  material 
in  maintaining  the  Canal  will  be  one-fourth  of  the  pay  roll  cost. 

The  memorandum  from  the  Chief  Sanitary  Officer  referred  to  in 
the  report  of  the  Committee  follows : 

I  have  presented  to  the  Committee  a  scheme  of  permanent  organization  gotten 
up  by  Colonel  Phillips.  I  think  this  the  proper  organization  under  present  laws 
<ind  agreements. 

Under  the  permanent  organization  it  will  be  very  advantageous  to  have  one 
large  hospital  on  the  Isthmus  equipped  and  officered  in  such  a  manner  that 
first-class  professional  care  can  be  given  any  patient  under  any  circumstances. 
This  community  will  be  here  very  much  isolated  for  many  years  to  come.  If  a 
man  needed  a  capital  operation  and  it  could  not  be  done  here,  he  would  have 
now  to  travel  five  and  six  days  to  the  nearest  place  where  it  could  be  done, 
giving  him  every  advantage  that  modern  equipment  and  science  affords. 

Under  the  permanent  organization  we  will  have  on  the  Isthmus  10,000 
troops.  And  some  hundred  thousand  civil  population,  of  whom  at  least  15,000 
will  be  Americans.  We  should  maintain  such  a  hospital  down  here  that  these 
people  could  get  just  as  good  care  and  attention  as  they  could  get  at  home.  To 
be  able  to  afford  this,  we  should  all  combine  upon  one  hospital.  Not  attempt  to 
maintain  a  half  dozen  different  hospitals — two  or  three  military,  one  or  two 
Commission,  and  Civil  Hospital  in  Panama  and  Colon.  At  present  all  of  our 
medical  work  is  combined  under  the  Commission  as  outlined  above,  with  the 
exception  of  Santo  Tomas  Hospital  at  Panama. 

Another  great  advantage  of  a  single  hospital  is  that  of  economy.  The  per 
capita  cost  of  caring  for  the  individual  would  be  considerably  less  in  one  large 
hospital  than  in  several  small  ones. 

There  is  also  a  considerable  sanitary  advantage  in  concentrating  in  one  large 
hospital.  It  is  of  the  very  greatest  advantage  to  the  health  officer  to  be  in- 
formed at  the  earliest  possible  moment  whenever  he  gets  contagious  diseases 
into  his  community.  The  inspectorial  control  that  a  health  officer  could  keep 
over  this  phase  of  the  question  would  be  greatly  facilitated  by  having  every- 
thing in  one  hospital.  I  would  therefore  recommend  that  under  the  permanent 
organization  Santo  Tomas  Hospital  be  closed,  and  all  their  patients  treated  at 
Ancon  at  a  charge  of  $1.00  per  day. 

This  would  probably  have  to  be  brought  about  by  mutual  agreement  between 
ourselves  and  the  Panama  Government.  During  the  year  1912  Santo  Tomas 
averaged  278  patients  per  day,  costing  them  $1.14  per  day.  Our  present  per 
capita  costs  at  Ancon  are  about  $1.12,  but  we  could  afford  to  take  these  278 
patients  at  $1.00  per  day  and  really  make  a  considerable  profit.  In  adding 
patients  to  a  large  institution  like  Ancon,  it  does  not  by  any  moans  increase  the 
cost  by  multiples  of  the  per  capita  cost. 

The  three  sanitary  districts  should  be  increased  by  20  laborers,  so  as  to  allow 
the  sanitary  inspectors  to  do  their  own  work,  as  will  probably  have  to  be  done 
under  the  permanent  organization.  I  am  convinced  from  a  long  experience 
under  both  systems  that  the  health  officer  should  carry  out  his  own  work  so 
far  as  he  is  able  to.  This  would  increase  the  expense  of  each  district  by 
$3,820.40. 

With  regard  to  Ancon  Hospital,  I  have  already  pointed  out  the  desirability 
of  bringing  all  the  patients  to  one  hospital.  Under  the  Canal  Bill  there  will 
be  on  the  Isthmus  in  the  Zone  two  entirely  independent  organizations,  under 
two  entirely  separated  heads,  who  will  both  report  to  the  Secretary  of  War 
as  their  immediate  superior.  There  will  be  some  ten  thousand  troops  who,  at 
a  rate  of  30  per  thousand  constantly  sick,  would  keep  in  Ancon  300  patients. 
There  will  be  some  3,000  Canal  employees  who  will  furnish  at  the  same  rate  90 


1870  MINUTES   OF   ISTHMIAN   CANAL   COMMISSION. 

patients.  Now  the  question  comes  up  as  to  whether  this  hospital  shall  be  ad- 
ministered by  the  Military  or  by  the  Canal  authorities.  I  think  that  it  is  better 
both  from  the  point  of  view  of  expediency  and  economy  to  have  it  administered 
by  the  military.  It  will  be  expedient  from  the  fact  that  the  military  will  have 
300  patients  in  the  hospital  as  against  90  for  the  Canal.  Besides  the  90  coming' 
from  Canal  employees,  we  will  probably  have  for  several  years  a  large  number 
of  charity  patients,  say  about  100.  The  two  organizations  would  stand  as  to 
number  in  the  relation  of  about  300  military  to  190  Canal.  We  would  besides 
this  have  in  the  hospital  organization  some  300  patients  from  Panama  paying 
$1.00  per  day,  some  170  insane  paying  75  cents,  and  some  200  pay  patients. 
Including  the  insane,  we  would  therefore  have  in  this  hospital  about  1.200 
patients.  The  cost  of  running  such  a  hospital  would  be  about  $500,000  per  ye;ir. 
With  the  class  of  patients  I  have  indicated,  the  income  from  such  a  hospital 
would  be  $350,000  per  year,  leaving  the  Canal  Government  an  expenditure  of 
$150,000  for  the  support  of  this  hospital.  If  this  hospital  were  turned  over  to 
the  military,  and  the  Canal  Government  paid  $1.00  per  day  for  each  of  its  190 
patients,  the  cost  would  be  only  $70,100  to  the  Canal  Government  as  against 
$150,000  if  they  ran  it  themselves. 

The  great  economy  of  Army  administration  would  be  that  the  Army  personnel 
of  physicians  and  hospital  corps  men  belonging  to  the  troops  stationed  here 
could  be  placed  in  this  hospital,  and  by  that  much  decrease  the  expense  of 
administration. 

Colon  Hospital. — Under  the  scheme  above  proposed  Colon  Hospital  could  be 
closed. 

The  cost  of  the  Health  Departments  of  Panama  and  Colon  should  be  borne 
by  the  Republic  of  Panama.  It  is  necessary  that  they  be  controlled  by  the 
United  States,  as  they  are  right  in  the  midst  of  our  territory,  and  it  is  essential 
to  our  integrity  that  they  be  kept  free  from  infection.  B,ut  if  we  did  not  main- 
tain them,  as  is  the  case  at  present,  the  Republic  of  Panama  would  have  to  do 
so  for  their  own  protection.  The  two  cities  are  wealthy  and  prosperous,  and 
could  well  afford  this  small  expense.  If  they  were  in  our  jurisdiction  they 
would  certainly  be  taxed  for  this  purpose. 

The  estimate  as  above  modified,  would  therefore  be: 

Chief  Sanitary  Office., $18,660.00 

Five  dispensaries 22.  S00.  00 

Quarantine — Panama 26,  574.  00 

Quarantine— Colon 27,  974.  00 

Ancon  Hospital 100,  000.  00 

(This  is  the  cost  of  the  hospital  service  rendered  to  the  Canal 
Government,  provided  it  is  a  military  hospital,  and  we  pay  $1.00 
'    per  day  for  our  employees.) 

Zone  sanitation 23,616.00 

219,  624.  00 
as  against  over  $300,000  if  charges  are  not  made. 

The  above  estimate  is  for  personnel  only.  To  this  will  have  to  be  added 
about  80  per  cent  of  the  total  for  material  and  supplies  if  under  the  permanent 
organization  the  material  and  supplies  bear  the  same  relation  to  the  total  cost 
as  at  present. 

The  Chairman  stated  that  as  the  report  of  the  Committee  embraced 
a  plan  of  organization  for  the  operation  and  maintenance  of  the 
Canal,  he  desired  to  submit  a  minority  report,  as  he  took  issue  with 
some  of  the  views  expressed  by  the  Committee. 


MINUTES   OF   ISTHMIAN   CANAL   COMMISSION.  1871 

The  minority  report  presented  by  the  Chairman  is  as  follows: 

I  submit  herewith  report  from  the  committee  appointed  in  compliance  with 
the  resolution  passed  by  the  Commission  at  its  163rd  meeting.  April  26,  1913,  on 
plans  for  the  maintenance  of  the  Panama  Canal.  At  the  time  this  resolution 
was  adopted  it  was  passed  with  the  understanding  that  the  plans  related  to 
the  physical  requirements  for  the  maintenance  of  the  Canal.  The  report  speci- 
fies certain  dredges  which  should  be  maintained,  but  leaves  the  question  of  the 
material  and  equipment  which  should  be  retained  and  which  forms  the  more 
important  part  of  any  plan  of  maintenance  for  consideration  by  the  officials 
immediately  concerned  in  the  work.  With  the  exceptions  noted,  the  report  is 
one  for  an  organization  to  operate  and  maintain  the  Canal,  and,  as  I  am  unable 
to  agree  with  the  plan  proposed  for  such  organization,  I  desire  that  the  follow- 
ing views  be  incorporated  as  part  of  the  record  in  connection  with  this  report: 

The  committee  recommends  that  the  hospitals  be  turned  over  to  the  Army, 
thereby  reducing  the  cost  for  the  care  of  the  sick  employees  of  the  Canal  to  a 
certain  estimated  sum.  At  the  same  time  it  submits  an  organization  for  the 
hospitals  with  increased  pay  for  the  personnel,  to  be  paid  from  Canal  funds,  so 
that  the  estimated  cost  to  The  Panama  Canal  for  the  care  of  its  sick  under  the 
scheme  proposed  must  be  increased  by  the  sums  appropriated  for  the  hospitals 
and  charged  to  the  Canal.  If  the  Chief  Sanitary  Officer  is  to  be  part  of  the 
Canal  organization  from  which  the  hospitals  are  to  be  divorced,  the  material 
sanitary  advantage  that  would  result  from  centralizing  the  hospital  facilities 
in  the  Canal  Zone  under  one  head  disappears.  Not  only  would  friction  result, 
but  eventually  there  would  be,  in  addition,  a  marine  hospital  for  seamen,  a 
hospital  for  the  Navy,  and  in  all  probability  a  hospital  for  Canal  employees. 
If  discontinued  as  a  part  of  the  Canal  Organization,  the  hospitals  should  be 
placed  under  the  Public  Health  Service.  It  may  also  be  noted  that  the  Republic 
of  Panama  will  not  consent  to  sending  its  sick  to  either  an  Army  or  Canal  hos- 
pital, and  has  stated  so  most  emphatically,  so  this  feature  of  the  scheme  is  not 
possible.  This  recommendation,  if  carried  out.  would  be  the  first  step  toward 
the  separation  of  the  various  parts  of  the  Canal,  the  entity  which  it  is  desired 
to  establish  would  be  dismembered,  and  it  is  in  violation  of  the  resolution 
adopted  by  the  Commission  at  its  156th  meeting,  April  23,  1910,  which  provides 
as  follows : 

''Resolved,  That  economy  in  the  administration  of  the  Panama  Canal,  both 
before  and  after  completion,  requires  adherence  to  the  principle  that  such  facili- 
ties, appurtenances,  etc.,  as  may  be  required  for  its  construction,  sanitation, 
operation,  maintenance,  repair,  defense,  and  commercial  use,  and  by  the  Panama 
Railroad  and  by  the  Canal  Zone  Government,  shall  be  combined  and  consoli- 
dated, so  far  as  practicable,  without  duplication,  regardless  of  their  use  by 
more  than  one  executive  department  of  the  government." 

In  the  organization  proposed  by  the  committee,  it  is  assumed  that  the  admin- 
istrative examination  of  accounts  is  to  be  the  same  as  that  made  by  the  office 
of  the  Chief  of  Engineers,  U.  S.  Army,  and  a  similar  organization  is  therefore 
provided.  The  administrative  examination  of  accounts  by  the  Chief  of  Engi- 
neers is  merely  to  determine  that  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the  Department 
are  complied  with,  that  the  property  is  properly  accounted  for,  and  that  the 
rules  and  regulations  of  the  Civil  Service  Commission  have  been  enforced.  In 
addition  to  such  an  examination  of  accounts  on  the  Isthmus,  there  is  provided 
a  system  of  accounting  and  time  inspection,  the  preparation  of  bills  and  claims 
against  employees,  individuals  and  outside  companies,  manufacturing  accounts, 
the  collection  of  tolls,  and  a  system  of  bookkeeping  required  by  the  regulations. 
The  two  are  not  comparable,  hence  the  organization  in  one  case  is  not  applicable 
to  that  in  the  other. 
45132—14 6 


b 


1872  MINUTES   OF   ISTHMIAN    CANAL   COMMISSION. 

The  Panama  Canal  Act  provides  for  the  Canal  organization  and  for  a  military 
establishment  on  the  Isthmus.  The  former  is  to  constitute  an  entity  and  all  of 
its  facilities  are  to  be  used  by  the  different  branches  of  the  Government  service. 
To  accomplish  this,  the  Panama  Canal  is"  placed  directly  under  the  President,  in 
lieu  of  under  one  of  the  Cabinet  officers  as  was  originally  proposed.  Economy 
of  administration  requires  tbat  this  entity  should  be  continued  after  construction. 

The  Act  further  contemplates  that  the  main  objects  are  the  operation,  main- 
tenance, sanitation  and  protection  of  the  Canal,  and  in  times  of  peace  every- 
thing must  be  subordinated  to  the  main  object:  operation  and  maintenance.  In 
drafting  the  bill  the  term  "  Governor  "  was  finally  adopted  by  the  committee 
in  order  to  prevent  the  appointment  of  such  an  official  to  take  charge  of  the 
civil  functions  that  might  remain.  With  this  in  view,  the  most  satisfactory 
organization  will  result  by  selecting  for  the  Governor  one  competent  to  operate 
and  maintain  the  Canal,  and,  since  the  operation  of  the  Canal  will  be  an  easy 
matter,  if  it  is  properly  maintained  in  satisfactory  working  condition,  it  nat- 
urally follows  that,  in  order  that  best  results  may  be  secured,  an  engineer 
should  be  at  the  head  of  the  organization.  The  salary  fixed  by  Congress  does 
not  make  the  position  sufficiently  attractive  to  induce  civilian  engineers  of 
standing  to  accept  the  position.  Furthermore,  officers  of  the  Corps  of  Engi- 
neers, U.  S.  Army,  are  available,  who,  by  training  and  experience  on  the  canals 
of  the  United  States,  are  better  suited  for  the  position.  The  best  organization, 
therefore,  that  can  be  secured  is  based  on  the  assumption  that  the  Governor  of 
the  Canal  shall  be  an  officer  of  the  Corps  of  Engineers. 

Furthermore,  the  Government  should  utilize  in  the  organization  its  trained 
officers  from  various  branches  of  its  service.  The  Department  of  Operation  and 
Maintenance  naturally  divides  itself  into  "  Operation  "  and  "  Maintenance."  On 
account  of  the  interest  the  Navy  has  in  the  Canal,  the  operation  should  be  under 
a  Naval  officer  and  he  should  have  charge  of  the  terminal  ports,  pilots,  floating 
equipment  necessary  for  the  operation  of  the  Canal,  lights,  beacons  and  buoys, 
and  he  should  direct  the  transit  of  vessels  through  the  Canal.  The  Maintenance 
subdivision  should  be  in  charge  of  an  Engineer  Officer  of  the  Army,  who  should 
have  supervision  over  all  construction  work  and  repairs,  including  the  locks, 
electrical  appliances,  shops,  dry  docks,  dredging,  engineering  work  in  connec- 
tion with  the  Panama  Railroad,  and  meteorological  and  hydrographic  work. 
There  should  be  a  department  of  accounts,  and,  in  view  of  the  provisions  of  the 
Legislative,  Executive  and  Judicial  Act  of  August  23,  1912,  and  the  views 
expressed  by  the  officials  of  the  Treasury,  the  party  in  charge  should  have, 
supervision  over  the  Disbursing  Officer  and  the  Collector.  There  should  be  one 
Supply  Department  handling  all  supplies,  an  Executive  Secretary  to  take  charge 
of  the  civil  functions  that  will  remain  after  the  Canal  Zone  is  depopulated  and 
the  canal  is  in  satisfactory  operation,  a  Health  Department  having  charge  of 
sanitation,  hospitals  and  quarantine,  and  a  Purchasing  Department  located  in 
the  United  States.  As  no  two  men  will  perform  the  same  work  in  the  same 
way  with  the  same  organization,  so  that  after  the  adoption  of  a  general  scheme 
the  details  should  be  worked  out  after  the  selection  of  the  heads  of  the  different 
departments  and  subdivisions,  and  as  this  is  what  the  committee  has  done  in 
presenting  its  details,  it  is  not  necessary  to  go  further  into  the  organization  than 
the  various  divisions  outlined,  the  rest  becomes  merely  a  matter  of  personnel. 

Upon  motion  it  was  ordered  that  both  reports  be  filed  in  the  records 
of  the  Commission. 

There  being  no  further  business  before  the  Commission,  the  meet- 
ing adjourned  at  2.35  p.  m.,  sine  die. 


INDEX 


ABSENCE,  LEAVE  OF.     See  Employees. 

ACCOUNTING  DEPARTMENT:  Page. 

Establishment  of 1853 

Report  of — 

Chairman  regarding  permanent  organization 1871 

Investigating  committee  regarding  permanent  organization 1868 

AGENTS: 

Corrupt  influencing  of,  unlawful 1851 

APPOINTMENTS  AND  COMPENSATION 1856 

ARMS: 

Regulations  for  carrying 1849 

ARMY: 

Purchase  of  supplies  or  equipment  from  persons  in,  unlawful 1798 

ARTISANS: 

Transfer  to  classified  positions  under  the  several  executive  departments 

without  examination  authorized 1818 

AUTOMOBILES: 

Licenses  for  chauffeurs 1864 

BAIL: 

Cash  deposit  in  lieu  of  bond  authorized 1847 

BAND,  ISTHMIAN  CANAL  COMMISSION: 

Changes  in  personnel  approved 1810,  1833 

BARS,  CANAL: 

Services  rendered  after  December  31,  1914,  shall  not  be  counted 1865 

BIRDS: 

Molesting  of,  unlawful 1825, 1844 

BOOKS: 

School,  Government  to  be  reimbursed  for  destruction  of 1865 

BROSIG,  PAUL: 

Reinstated  in  classified  service 1800 

CANAL  ZONE: 

Census  to  be  taken 1801 

Code  of  Civil  Procedure.     See  Civil  Procedure,  Code  of. 

Courts.     See  Courts. 

Laws.     See  Laws. 

Ordinances.     See  Ordinances. 

Sanitation.     See  Sanitation. 

Schools.     See  Schools. 
CEMENT: 

Steamers — 

Demurrage  claims  to  be  paid 1844 

CENSUS— CANAL  ZONE: 

To  be  taken 1801 

CHAUFFEURS: 

Licensing  of 1864 

I 


INDEX. 

_  Page. 

CIVIlTdMINISTRAT10N;'dEPARTMENT  OF:  ^ 1832, 1863 

Changes  in  personnel  approved ( 

CIVIL  PROCEDURE,  CODE  OF:  1796 

Amendment  of  sections  51,  62,  and  526 l796 

Repeal  of  sections  63  and  529 

CLAIMS:                                                                        .,  1844 

Demurrage,  on  extra  cement  steamers  to  be  paid 

Personal  injury—  _     1818 

Method  for  determination  and  adjustment  oi ig2g 

Order  repealed 

CLOSE,  JOSEPH  A.:  1829 

Leave  of  absence  with  pay  granted 

COLON  (HARBOR):  _     1835 

Maritime  quarantine  regulations  established 

COMMISSARY:  1810,1833,1864 

Changes  in  personnel  approved 

COMMITTEE:  .  .„,._,,  .     1832 

Appointed  to  investigate  plans  for  maintenance  of  canal.  "■•••;;;  1866 

Report  of 1871 

Changes  in  personnel  approved - 

CORPORATIONS,  FOREIGN:  1827 

Conditions  for  doing  business  in  Canal  Zone  prescribed 

COURTS: 

District—  1796 

Costs  to  be  taxed 1796 

Dockets,  keeping  of 1796 

Oral  pleadings  in 

Supreme—                                                      .  1795 

Wm  H  Jackson  appointed  associate  justice -  -  - 

CRAp"o°Ap™nGce  o«,  in  certain  sections  of  Pana-na  Canal  proved  . . .    1863 

DENTISTRY:  1797,1800 

Practice  of,  without  a  license  unlawful 

DENTISTS:  1SU 

Family  quarters  for '/' 

DEPORTATIONS:                                          .  1848 

Punishment  of  deported  persons  returning  to  Canal  Zone 

DISBURSEMENTS,  DEPARTMENT  OF:  ^  ^  lg64 

Changes  in  personnel  approved - 

D0CRental  paid  by  commission  to  Panama  Railroad  reduced .- 

EMPIRE:  .     1814 

Administrative  district  consolidated  with  Gorgona 

EMPLOYEES:  1856 

Appointments  under  permanent  organization -  -  ^  ^^  im 

Changes  in  personnel  approved 

Claims  for  injury—  1818 

Method  for  determination  and  adjustment  ol ■  •  -  ig2g 

Order  repealed 


INDEX.  Ill 

EMPLOYEES— Continued.  Page. 

Compensation 1856 

Conditions  of  employment 1856 

Corrupt  influencing  of,  unlawful 1851 

Deceased,  administration  of  estates  of 1802, 1826 

Dentists,  family  quarters  for 1811 

Insane,  administration  of  estates  of 1802, 1826 

Laborers  and  mechanics,  eight-hour  contract  law  not  applicable  until  after 

January  1,  1915 1814 

Leave  of  absence — 

Accrued,  to  be  paid  for  at  termination  of  actual  service 1807 

Annual,  regulations  governing 1858 

Cumulative — 

Allowed  W.  R.  McCann 1865 

Limit  removed 1830 

Regulations  governing 1859 

Granted  with  pay — 

Close,  Joseph  A 1829 

Hobart,  Francis  A 1806 

Jervey,  Maj.  J.  P 1807 

Kersey,  Harry  A 1829 

McPherson,  Clinton  N 1865 

MacDonald,  Donald  F 1829 

Rafael,  Neira  A 1829 

Schildhauer,  Edward ." 1807 

Smallwood,  Thomas  H 1806 

Sneed,  J.  W 1806 

Stratton,  William  J 1829 

Volk,  Rev.  P.  Jose 1806 

Williamson,  Llewellyn  P 1843 

Wilson,  Lieut,  Col.  E.  T 1829 

Travel 1859 

Medals  and  bars,  service  rendered  after  December  31,  1914,  not  to  be 

counted 1865 

Medical  care 1858 

Office  hours  and  hours  of  labor 1860 

Quarters 1858 

Transportation 1857 

Transfer  of  certain  classes  to  classified  positions  under  the  several  executive 

departments  without  examination  authorized 1818 

Washington  office,  permanent  force  temporarily  provided  for 1860 

EMPLOYMENTS: 

Conditions  of,  under  permanent  organization 1856 

EQUIPMENT: 

Unlawful  to  purchase  from  persons  in  the  Army  or  Navy 1798 

ESTATES: 

Administration  provided  for 1802, 1826 

EXAMINATION  OF  ACCOUNTS,  DEPARTMENT  OF: 

Changes  in  personnel  approved 1809, 1833, 1864 

EXECUTIVE  ORDERS.     See  Orders. 
EXECUTIVE  SECRETARY: 

Establishment  of  office 1854 

FIGHTS: 

Between  bulls,  dogs,  or  cocks  prohibited 1793 


IV  INDEX. 

FIREARMS:  '  Page. 

Regulations  governing  carrying  of 1798 

GORGON A: 

Administrative  district  consolidated  with  Empire '. 1814 

HEALTH  DEPARTMENT: 

Establishment  of • 1854 

HOBART,  FRANCIS  A.: 

Leave  of  absence  with  pay  granted 1806 

HOSPITALS: 

Permanent  organization — 

Committee  appointed  to  report  on 1866 

Memorandum  of  chief  sanitary  officer 1869 

Minority  report  of  chairman 1871 

Regulations — 

Amendment  of 1808, 1862 

Treatment  of  officers  and  men  of  United  States  Navy  and  Marine  Corps  pro- 
vided for 1808 

HUNTING: 

Permits,  fees  for 1798 

With  fire  at  night  prohibited 1852 

With  spring  or  trap  prohibited 1852 

INJURIES: 

Compensation  for 1818 

Order  repealed . 1828 

INSANE: 

Administration  of  estates  provided  for 1802, 1826 

INTEREST: 

Rate  on  borrowed  money  fixed 1850 

ISTHMIAN  CANAL  COMMISSION: 
Meetings,  minutes  of.     See  Minutes. 

Metcalfe,  Richard  Lee,  appointed  member  of 1843 

Payment  to  Panama  Railroad  Co.  for — 

Telegraph  and  telephone  service  reduced 1811, 1845 

Wharves  and  docks  reduced 1830 

Demurrage  claims  on  extra  cement  steamers  authorized 1844 

Rules,  regulations,  and  orders  continued  in  force  for  Panama  Canal 1860 

Resolutions.     See  Resolutions. 
JACKSON,  WILLIAM  H.: 

Appointed  as  associate  justice  of  Canal  Zone  Supreme  Court. ." 1795 

JERVEY,  MAJ.  J.  P.: 

Leave  of  absence  with  pay  granted 1807 

JOHNSON,  DR.  EMORY  R.: 

Compensation  fixed 1851 

JURY: 

Executive  order  providing  for  trials  by,  amended 1842 

KERSEY,  HARRY  A.: 

Leave  of  absence  with  pay  granted 1829 

LABOR: 

Hours  of — 

Canal  employees ,  -  -  -     I860 

Provisions  of  eight-hour  contract  act  of  June  19,  1912,  waived  until 
January  1,  1915,  as  to  canal  contracts 1814 


INDEX.  V 

LANDS:  Page. 

(anal  Zone,  all  declared  necessary  for  canal  purposes 1816 

Las  Sabanas,  exempted  from  provisions  of  order  declaring  all  Canal  Zone 

lands  necessary  for  canal  purposes 1816 

Panama  Railroad,  placing  of  signs  on,  prohibited 1795 

United  [States,  placing  of  signs  on,  prohibited 1795 

LAS  SABANAS: 

Lands.     See  Lands. 
LAW,  DEPARTMENT  OF: 

Changes  in  personnel  approved 1809, 1833, 1864 

Head  of  department  authorized  to  approve  for  payment  vouchers  and  pay 

rolls  covering  expenses 1843 

LAWS: 

Amendment  of — 

Act  No.  2,  sections  1  and  2,  regarding  appointment  of  notaries  public.     1799 

Act  No.  9,  section  10,  regarding  the  report  of  certain  diseases 1796 

Act  No.  14,  regarding  hunting  permits 1798 

Criminal  procedure,  section  310,  relative  to  bail  amended 1847 

LICENSES: 

Chauffeurs 1 1864 

Dentists 1797, 1800 

Fees — 

Carrying  firearms 1798 

Hunting  permits 1798 

Liquor — 

Applicants  to  receive 1811, 1830 

Issuance  of 1810 

None  to  be  granted  after  July  1,  1913 1832 

Vehicles,  animal  -drawn 1831 

LIMBS: 

Artificial,  to  be  furnished  William  Phillips 1845 

LIQUOR: 

Areas  in  which  intoxicating  drinks  may  be  sold  fixed 1810 

Distillation  tax  order  amended 1814 

Licenses.     See  Licenses. 

Opeiation  of  stills  after  December  31,  1912,  prohibited 1814 

McCANN,  W.  R.: 

Allowed  19  days  of  accumulated  leave 1865 

Mcpherson  ,  c  id  nt<  >n  n  . : 

Leave  of  absence  with  pay  granted 1865 

MacDONALD,  DONALD  F.: 

Leave  of  absence  with  pay  granted 1829 

MEDALS,  CANAL: 

Service  rendered  after  December  31,  1914,  not  counted 1865 

MEDICAL  CARE   FOR   EMPLOYEES 1858 

MEDICINE: 

Practice  of,  without  license  unlawful 1797, 1800 

METCALFE,  RICHARD   LEE: 

Appointed  member  of  Isthmian  Canal  Commission 1843 

MEXICAN   NATIONAL   SCHOOL  OF  ENGINEERING: 

Alumni  may  be  employed  under  the  several  executive  departments  in 
order  to  observe  certain  public  works 1798 


VI  INDEX. 

MIDWIFERY:  Page. 

Practice  of,  without  a  license  unlawful 1797, 1800 

MINUTES: 

One  hundred  and  sixty-second  meeting,  Culebra,  April  26,  1912 1793 

One  hundred  and  sixty-third  meeting,  Culebra,  April  24,  1913 1813 

One  hundred  and  sixty -fourth  meeting,  Culebra,  September  10,  1913 1835 

One  hundred  and  sixty-fifth  meeting,  Culebra,  March  27,  1914 1847 

MONEY: 

Rate  of  interest  on  borrowed,  fixed 1850 

NAVY: 

Purchase  of  supplies  or  equipment  from  persons  in,  unlawful 1798 

NOTARIES   PUBLIC: 

Act  authorizing  appointment  of,  amended 1799 

OPERATION   AND  MAINTENANCE   DEPARTMENT: 

Establishment  of 1853 

ORDERS: 

Executive  (President) — 

August  4,  1911,  prohibiting  promotion  of  fights  between  bulls,  dogs,  or 

cocks 1793 

September  8,  1911,  establishing  a  postal-savings  system  in  the  Canal 

Zone 1793 

September  8,  1911,  prohibiting  the  placing  of  signs  on  lands  and  prop- 
erty of  the  United  States  and  the  Panama  Railroad  Co.  in  the  Canal 

Zone 1795 

September  14,  1911,  making  it  a  misdemeanor  to  unlawfully  remove 

packing  from  journal  boxes  of  locomotives,  coaches,  etc 1795 

September  21,  1911,  appointing  William  H.  Jackson  an  associate  justice 

of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  Canal  Zone 1795 

September  26,  1911,  amending  sections  51,  62,  and  526  and  repealing 
sections  63  and  529  of  the  Code  of  Civil  Procedure  of  the  Canal  Zone 
re  allowing  oral  pleadings  in  district  courts,  prescribing  rules  for  keep- 
ing dockets,  and  allowing  courts  discretion  in  taxing  costs 1796, 

October  14,  1911,  amending  section  10,  act  No.  9,  providing  sanitary 
rules  and  regulations  for  the  Canal  Zone,  to  require  reports  of  certain 

diseases  to  district  physicians  or  district  sanitary  inspector 1796 

October  14,  1911,  prohibiting  the  practice  of  medicine,  surgery,  den- 
tistry, pharmacy,  or  midwifery  without  a  license 1797 

November  3,  1911,  amending  section  456,  act  No.  14,  of  penal  code, 

regulating  the  carrying  of  firearms 1798 

November  6,  1911,  providing  that  alumni  of  National  School  of  Engi- 
neering of  Mexico  may  be  employed  under  the  several  executive 
departments  of  the  United  States  in  order  to  observe  certain  public 

works 1798 

November  15,  1911,  prohibiting  the  unauthorized  purchase  in  the  Canal 

Zone  of  supplies  and  equipment  from  persons  in  the  Army  or  Navy. .     1798 
November  18,  1911,  amending  sections  1  and  2,  act  No.  2,  of  Canal  Zone 

laws,  relating  to  notaries  public •  -  -     1799 

December  26,  1911,  amending  order  of  October  14,  1911,  prohibiting  the 
practice  of  medicine,  surgery,  dentistry,  pharmacy,  or  midwifery  in 

the  Canal  Zone  without  a  license 1S00 

January  9, 1912,  providing  for  the  reinstatement  in  the  classified  service 

of  Paul  Brosig -• 1800 

January  12,  1912,  providing  for  the  taking  of  a  census  of  the  Canal  Zone .     1801 


INDEX.  vn 

ORDERS— Continued. 

Executive  (President) — Continued.  Page. 

February  5,  1912,  providing  an  inexpensive  method  for  the  administra- 
tion of  estates  of  deceased  and  insane  persons  in  certain  cases,  and 
repealing  act  24  of  the  Canal  Zone  laws  and  orders  amendatory 
thereto 1802 

February  28,  1912,  prescribing  maximum  speed  for  motor  vehicles  and 

establishing  rules  of  the  road  for  the  Canal  Zone 1805 

April  17,  1912,  to  prevent  trespassing  upon  reservations  in  the  Canal 
Zone 1813 

May  21, 1912,  amending  order  of  May  13, 1911,  relative  to  distillation  tax 

and  prohibiting  operation  of  stills  after  January  1,  1913 1814 

June  19,  1912,  waiving  provisions  of  eight-hour  contract,  act  of  June 

19,  1912,  as  to  canal  contracts  until  January  1,  1915 1814 

September  12,  1912,  consolidating  the  administrative  district  of  Gor- 
gona  with  that  of  Empire 1814 

December  5,  1912,  declaring  all  lands  in  the  Canal  Zone  necessary  for 
canal  purposes 1816 

January  13,  1913,  amending  the  order  of  July  21.  1911,  providing  for 
the  inspection  of  steam  vessels 1816 

February  18,  1913,  excepting  the  area  of  land  known  as  Las  Sabanas 
from  the  provisions  of  the  order  of  December  5,  1912.  declaring  all 
lands  in  the  Canal  Zone  necessary  for  canal  purposes 1817 

February  18,  1913,  providing  that  all  artisans,  citizens  of  the  United 
States,  who  have  rendered  one  year's  satisfactory  service  on  the 
Isthmus  may  be  transferred  within  three  years  to  corresponding 
positions  in  the  classified  service 1818 

February  26.  1913,  providing  a  method  for  the  determination  and  ad- 
justment of  all  claims  arising  out  of  personal  injury  to  employees  en- 
gaged on  the  canal  or  the  Panama  Railroad 1818 

March  19,  1913,  providing  for  the  protection  of  birds  and  their  nests 

in  the  Canal  Zone 1825 

March  20,  1913,  amending  order  of  February  5,  1912,  providing  an  inex- 
pensive method  for  the  administration  of  estates  of  deceased  and 
insane  persons  in  certain  cases 1826 

March  20,  1913,  prescribing  conditions  under  which  foreign  corpora- 
tions may  do  business  in  the  Canal  Zone 1827 

.  March  24,  1913,  suspending  the  operation  of  the  order  of  February  26. 
1913,  providing  a  method  of  compensation  for  personal  injuries  to, 
or  for  the  death  of  employees 1828 

April  15,  1913,  providing  maritime  quarantine  regulations  fur  the  Canal 
Zone  and  the  harbors  of  the  cities  of  Panama  and  Colon,  Republic  of 
Panama 1835 

June  30,  1913,  amending  order  of  February  6,  1908,  relative  to  jury 
trials  in  the  Canal  Zone 1842 

August  7.  1913,  prohibiting  the  unauthorized  use  of  flying  machines. .     1842 

August  9,  1913,  appointing  Richard  Lee  Metcalfe  a  member  of  the 
Isthmian  Canal  Commission 1843 

August  29, 1913.  making  it  lawful  for  the  defendant  in  criminal  proceed- 
ings to  make  a  cash  deposit  in  lieu  of  a  bail  bond,  and  amending  sec- 
tion 310  of  the  Criminal  Procedure  of  the  Canal  Zone 1847 

September  25.  1913,  providing  for  the  punishment  of  deported  persons 
who  return  to  the  Canal  Zone,  and  repealing  the  order  of  May  2,  1911 .     1848 

November  7,  1913,  providing  regulations  relative  to  the  carrying  of 
arms 1849 


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VIII  INDEX. 

ORDERS— Continued . 

Executive  (President) — Continued.  Page. 

November  11,  1913,  fixing  the  rate  of  interest  allowed  for  the  use  or 

detention  of  money , 1850 

January  21, 1914,  providing  a  punishment  for  the  corrupt  influencing  of 

agents,  employees,  or  servants 1851 

January  27, 1914,  prohibiting  fire  hunting  at  night  and  hunting  by  means 

of  a  spring  or  trap,  and  repealing  the  order  of  September  8,  1909 1852 

January  27,  1914,  establishing  a  permanent  organization  for  the  Panama 
Canal  and  abolishing  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission,   effective 

April  1,  1914 1853 

February  2,  1914,  providing  conditions  of  employment  for  the  perma- 
nent force  for  the  Panama  Canal 1856 

March  2,  1914,  establishing  a  Washington  office  of  the  Panama  Canal 
and  providing  temporarily  for  the  organization,  officials  and  em- 
ployees thereof,  and  continuing  in  force  for  the  Panama  Canal  rules, 
regulations,  and  Executive  orders  which  may  have  been  made  for 

the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission 1860 

General  (Secretary  of  War) — 

November  3,  1911,  amending  act  No.  14  so  as  to  provide  no  charge  shall 
be  made  for  hunting  permits  issued  to  enlisted  men  of  the  land  and 

naval  forces  of  the  United  States 1798 

January  20,  1914,  fixing  the  total  compensation  to  be  paid  Prof.  Emory 
R.  Johnson  and  directing  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission  to  provide 

funds  needed  in  the  execution  of  this  order 1851 

ORDINANCES: 

Providing  for  licensing — 

Chauffeurs 1864 

Motor  vehicles  in  Canal  Zone 1807 

PACKING: 

Unlawful  removal  from  journal  boxes  of  locomotives,  coaches,  etc.,  a  misde- 
meanor      1795 

PANAMA  CANAL: 
Maintenance  of — 
Committee — 

Appointment  of,  to  investigate  plans 1832 

Minority  report  of  chairman 1871 

Report  of 1866 

Passage  or  presence  of  floating  craft  in  certain  sections  prohibited 1863 

Permanent  organization — ■ 

Detail  of  officers  under ' 1855 

Establishment  of 1853 

Rules,  regulations,  and  orders  of  Isthmian  Canal  Commission  continued  in 

force *. 1860 

Tolls  rates  fixed 1815 

PANAMA  HARBOR: 

Maritime  quarantine  regulations  established , 1835 

PANAMA    RAILROAD   COMPANY: 
Agreements  with  commission — 
Payments  by  commission  for — 

Demurrage  claims  ou  extra  cemeut  steamers  authorized 1844 

Telegraph  and  telephone  services  reduced .* 1811, 1845 

Wharves  and  docks  reduced 1830 

Relocation  Division,  changes  in  personnel  approved 1810, 1833 


INDEX.  IX 

PAY   ROLLS:  Page. 

Approval  of  regulations  covering 1845 

Head  of  department  of  law  authorized  to  approve,  for  payment 1843 

PEG  LEGS: 

To  be  furnished  in  certain  cases 1863 

PHARMACY: 

Practice  without  a  license  unlawful 1797, 1800 

PHILLIPS,  WILLIAM: 

To  be  furnished  artificial  limbs 1845 

PHOTOGRAPHS: 

Military  works — 

Not  to  be  taken  from  flying  machines  without  consent  of  Chief  Exec- 
utive      1843 

PHYSICIANS: 

Regulations  governing  treatment  of  persons  by,  amended 1808 

Treatment  of  officers  and  men  of  United  States  Navy  and  Marine  Corps 

provided  for 1808 

POSTAL  SAVINGS  SYSTEM: 

Establishment  of,  in  Canal  Zone 1793 

PROCLAMATION— PRESIDENT'S : 

November  13,  1912,  fixing  Panama  Canal  toll  rates 1815 

PROPERTY: 

Panama  Railroad — 

Placing  of  signs  on,  prohibited 1795 

United  States — 

Placing  of  signs  on,  prohibited 179& 

PUBLIC  WORKS: 

Mexican  National  School  of  Engineering  alumni  permitted  to  observe 1798 

PURCHASING   DEPARTMENT: 

Establishment  of 1853, 1860 

QUARANTINE,  MARITIME : 

Regulations  established 1835 

QUARTERMASTER'S  DEPARTMENT: 

Changes  in  personnel  approved 1809, 1832, 1833, 1864 

QUARTERS: 

Employees 1858 

Family,  for  dentists 1811 

RAFAEL,'  NEIRA  A.: 

Leave  of  absence  with  pay  granted 1829 

REGULATIONS: 

Birds,  protection  of 1844 

Hospital,  amendment  of 1862 

Maritime  quarantine 1835 

Prohibiting  the  passage  or  presence  of  floating  craft  in  certain  sections  of 

the  canal 1863 

RESERVATIONS: 

Trespassing  on,  prohibited 1813 

RESOLUTIONS: 

Artificial  limbs  to  be  furnished  William  Phillips  . 1845 

Demurrage  claims  on  extra  cement  steamers  to  be  paid 1844 

Dentists,  to  be  allowed  family  quarters 1811 

Employees — 

Leave  of  absence — 
Accumulative — 

Limit  removed 1830 

W.  R.  McCann  allowed  19  days 1865 


X  INDEX. 

RESOLUTIONS— Continued. 
Employees — Continued. 

Leave  of  absence — Continued.  Page. 

Accrued  leave  to  be  paid  for  at  termination  of  actual  service 1807 

Granted,  with  pay — 

Close,  Joseph  A 1829 

Hobart,  Francis  A 1806 

Jervey,  Maj.  J.  P 1807 

Kersey,  Harry  A 1829 

McPherson,  Clinton  N 1865 

MacDonald,  Donald  F 1829 

Rafael,  Neira  A 1829 

Schildhauer,  Edward 1807 

Smallwood,  Thos.  H 1806 

Sneed,  J.  W 1806 

Stratton,  William  J 1829 

Volk,  Rev.  P.  Jose 1806 

Williamson,  Llewellyn  P 1843 

Wilson,  Lieut.  Col.  E.  T 1829 

Hospitals — 

Regulations  amended — 

Governing  treatment  of  persons  in 1808 

Relative  furnishing  special  appliances  or  apparatus 1862 

Treatment  of  officers  and  men  of  United  States  Navy  and  Marine 

Corps  provided  for 1808 

Law,  department  of,  vouchers  and  pay  rolls  covering  expenses  to  be  ap- 
proved by  head  of  department 1843 

Licenses — Liquor — 

Applicants  to  receive 1811, 1830 

None  to  be  granted  after  July  1,  1913 1832 

Medals  and  service  bars — 

Service  rendered  after  December  31,  1914,  not  to  be  counted 1865 

Panama  Canal,  committee  appointed  to  investigate  plan  for  maintenance  of .  1832 
Panama  Railroad  Co. — 

Payment  of  rental  for  wharves  and  docks  by  commission  reduced 1830 

Physicians — 

Regulations  governing  treatment  of  persons  amended 1808 

Treatment  of  officers  and  men  of  United  States  Navy  and  Marine 

Corps  provided  for 1808 

Saloons,  location  fixed .  1810 

Schools,  Government  to  be  reimbursed  for  destruction  ofbooks 1865 

Vouchers  and  pay  rolls,  regulations  governing  approved 1845 

ROADS: 

Rules  of  the  road  established , 1805 

SALOONS: 

Location  in  Canal  Zone  fixed 1S10 

Number  not  to  be  restricted : 1811 

SANITATION: 

Department  of,  changes  in  personnel  approved '.  1809, 1832, 1864 

Permanent  work,  report  of  investigating  committee  regarding 1869 

Rules  and  regulations  requiring  report  of  certain  diseases 1796 

SCHILDHAUER,  EDWARD: 

Leave  of  absence  with  pay  granted 1807 

SCHOOLS: 

Government  to  be  reimbursed  for  destruction  of  school  books 1865 


INDEX.  XI 

SERVANTS:  Page. 

Corrupt  influencing  of,  unlawful 1851 

SHOPS: 

Organization  for 1867 

SIGNS: 

Placing  of,  on  lands  and  property  of  United  States  and  Panama  Railroad 

Co.  prohibited 1795 

SMALLWOOD,  THOMAS  H.: 

Leave  of  absence  with  pay  granted 1806 

SNEED,  J.  W.: 

Leave  of  absence  with  pay  granted 1806 

STILLS: 

Operation  after  December  31,  1912,  to  cease 1814 

Output  to  be  measured 1814 

STRATTON,  WILLIAM  J.: 

Leave  of  absence  with  pay  granted 1829 

SUBSISTENCE  DEPARTMENT: 

Changes  in  personnel  approved 1809, 1832, 1864 

SUPPLIES:  . 

Unlawful  to  purchase  from  persons  in  the  Army  or  Navy 1798 

SUPPLY  DEPARTMENT: 

Establishment  of 1853 

SURGERY: 

Practice  without  a  license  unlawful 1797, 1800 

TAXES: 

Distillation,  collection  provided  for 1814 

TELEGRAPH  AND  TELEPHONE  SERVICE: 

Amount  of  payment  to  Panama  Railroad  by  commission  reduced 1811, 1845 

TOLLS,  PANAMA  CANAL: 

Rates  fixed 1815 

TRANSPORTATION: 

Employees 1857 

VEHICLES: 

Animal-drawn,  taxes  and  licenses  for 1831 

Motor — 

Maximum  speed  prescribed 1805 

Ordinance  providing  for  licensing  and  regulation  of,  amended 1807 

VESSELS,  STEAM: 

Order  of  July  2,  1911,  regarding  inspection  amended 1816 

VOLK,  REV.  P.  JOSE: 

Leave  of  absence  with  pay  granted 1806 

VOUCHERS: 

Approval  of — ■ 

By  head  of  department  of  law,  authorized 1843 

Regulations  governing 1845 

WASHINGTON  OFFICE: 

Changes  in  personnel  approved 1809, 1832, 1864 

Temporary  establishment  of 1860 

WHARVES: 

Rental  paid  Panama  Railroad  by  Commission  reduced 1830 

WILLIAMSON,  LLEWELLYN  P.: 

Leave  of  absence  with  pay  granted 1843 

WILSON,  LIEUT.  COL.  E.  T.: 

Leave  of  absence  with  pay  granted 1829 

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